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</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund seeks to approximate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the Dow Jones Target 2010 Index℠.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Fees and Expenses
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">These tables are intended to help you understand the various costs and expenses you will pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment) </b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Example of Expenses
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The example below is intended to help you compare the costs of investing in the Fund with the costs of investing in other mutual funds. The example assumes a $10,000 initial investment, 5% annual total return, and that operating expenses remain the same as in the tables above. The example also assumes that the Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver shown above will only be in place for the length of the current waiver commitment. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Portfolio Turnover
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or "turns over" its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund's performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 37% of the average value of its portfolio.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Principal Investment Strategies
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">Under normal circumstances, we invest:</p>
<ul><li>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">at least 80% of the Fund's total assets in equity, fixed income and money market securities designed to approximate the holdings and weightings of the securities in the Dow Jones Target 2010 Index℠.</p>
</li></ul>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund is a gateway fund that invests in various master portfolios which in turn invest in a combination of equity, fixed income and money market securities using an asset allocation strategy designed to replicate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the Dow Jones Target 2010 Index℠. Similar to the methodology of the index, the Fund's investment strategy is to gradually reduce the Fund's potential market risk exposure over time by re-allocating the Fund's assets among these major asset classes: equity, fixed income and money market instruments. Generally, the longer the Fund's time horizon, the more of its assets are allocated to equity securities to pursue capital appreciation over the long term. As the Fund's time horizon shortens, it replaces some of its equity holdings with fixed income and money market holdings to reduce market risk and price volatility and thereby generally becomes more conservative in its asset allocation as the Fund's target year approaches and for the first 10 years after it arrives. The Fund's target year serves as a guide to the relative market risk exposure of the Fund, and your decision to invest in this Fund or another Wells Fargo Advantage Dow Jones Target Date Fund with a different target year and market risk exposure depends upon your individual risk tolerance, among other factors.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The "target year" designated in the Fund's name is the same as the year in the name of the Dow Jones Target 2010 Index℠. Although the individual goals of each investor with respect to a target year vary, an investor may intend for the target year to represent the approximate year in or around which the investor plans to begin withdrawing a portion or all of the investor's investment in the Fund and/or stop making new investments to the Fund. The Fund's goals may not align with the goals of an investor that seeks to begin to withdraw a portion or all of the investor's investment in the Fund significantly before or after the Fund's target year. In this respect, the Fund's goals may more closely align with an investor that intends to begin gradually withdrawing the value of the investor's account on or around the target year. In addition, the Fund will not have its most conservative asset allocation in the Fund's target year, which may not align with an investor's plan for withdrawing the investor's investment. The principal value of an investor's investment in the Fund is not guaranteed, and an investor may experience losses, at any time, including near, at or after the target year designated in the Fund's name. In addition, there is no guarantee that an investor's investment in the Fund will provide income at, and through the years following, the target year in the Fund's name in amounts adequate to meet the investor's goals.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">Currently, the master portfolios in which the Fund invests are the Wells Fargo Advantage Diversified Stock Portfolio, the Wells Fargo Advantage Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio, and the Wells Fargo Advantage Short-Term Investment Portfolio. The Diversified Stock Portfolio and the Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio seek to approximate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the respective equity and fixed income portions of the Dow Jones Target 2010 Index℠ by investing in the securities that comprise the sub-indexes representing the equity and fixed income asset classes, respectively, which securities may include, among others, growth and value stocks, foreign and emerging market equity investments, and securities of smaller companies, as well as debt securities, including corporate bonds, mortgage- and asset-backed securities and U.S. and foreign government obligations. The Diversified Stock Portfolio may also use derivatives, such as stock index futures in order to manage movements of the portfolio against certain indexes. The Diversified Stock Portfolio and the Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio use an optimization process, which seeks to balance the replication of index performance and security transaction costs. The Fund invests in the Short-Term Investment Portfolio to represent the cash component of the Dow Jones Target Date Indexes, but unlike the cash component of the Dow Jones Target 2010 Index℠, the Portfolio does not seek to replicate the Barclays 1-3 Month Treasury-Bill Index. This could result in potential tracking error between the performances of the Fund and the Dow Jones Target 2010 Index℠. As the Fund has now reached its target year, its risk exposure approaches 27% of the risk of the global equity market. The Fund will not reach its lowest risk exposure of 20% of the risk of the global equity market until ten years past the Fund's target year. To measure the Fund's risk and the risk of the global equity market, we use a statistical method known as below-mean semi-variance, which quantifies portfolio risk levels by measuring only the below-average outcomes. This method is designed to provide a more useful and nuanced picture of the Fund's risk profile. As of February 28, 2013, the Dow Jones Target 2010 Index℠ included equity, fixed income and money market securities in the weights of 23%, 73% and 4%, respectively, which represent the percentage breakdown of the Fund's assets across the Diversified Stock, Diversified Fixed Income and Short-Term Investment Portfolios, respectively, as of such date, and may change over time. The Fund reserves the right to change its percentage allocation among the Portfolios as we deem necessary to meet its investment objective.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Principal Investment Risks
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">An investment in the Fund may lose money, is not a deposit of Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. or its affiliates, is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other governmental agency, and is primarily subject to the risks briefly summarized below.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Allocation Methodology Risk.</b> A Fund is subject to the risk that the allocation methodology of the Dow Jones Target Date Index will not meet an investor's goals because it will not eliminate the investment volatility that could reduce the amount of funds available for an investor to withdraw when the investor intends to begin to withdraw a portion or all of the investor's investment in the Fund or it may over-emphasize conservative investments designed to ensure capital conservation and current income, which may ultimately prevent the investor from achieving the investor's income and appreciation goals.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Counter-Party Risk.</b> A Fund may incur a loss if the other party to an investment contract, such as a derivative or a repurchase or reverse repurchase agreement, fails to fulfill its contractual obligation to the Fund.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Debt Securities Risk.</b> The issuer of a debt security may fail to pay interest or principal when due, and the value of a debt security may decline if an issuer defaults or if its credit quality deteriorates. Changes in market interest rates may reduce the value of debt securities or reduce the Fund's returns.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Derivatives Risk.</b> The use of derivatives such as futures, options and swap agreements, can lead to losses, including those magnified by leverage, particularly when derivatives are used to enhance return rather than offset risk.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Emerging Markets Risk.</b> Foreign investment risks are typically greater for securities in emerging markets, which can be more vulnerable to recessions, currency volatility, inflation and market failure.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Foreign Investment Risk.</b> Foreign investments face the potential of heightened illiquidity, greater price volatility and adverse effects of political, regulatory, tax, currency, economic or other macroeconomic developments.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Futures Risk.</b> Because the futures utilized by a Fund are standardized and exchange-traded, where the exchange serves as the ultimate counterparty for all contracts, the primary credit risk on futures contracts is the creditworthiness of the exchange itself. Futures are also subject to market risk, interest rate risk (in the case of futures contracts relating to income producing securities) and index tracking risk (in the case of stock index futures).</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Growth Style Investment Risk.</b> Growth stocks may be more expensive relative to the values of other stocks and carry potential for significant volatility and loss.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Index Tracking Risk.</b> The ability to track an index may be affected by, among other things, transaction costs and shareholder purchases and redemptions.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Issuer Risk.</b> The value of a security may decline because of adverse events or circumstances that directly relate to conditions at the issuer or any entity providing it credit or liquidity support.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Leverage Risk.</b> Leverage created by borrowing or certain investments, such as derivatives and reverse repurchase agreements, can diminish the Fund's performance and increase the volatility of the Fund's net asset value.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Liquidity Risk.</b> A security may not be able to be sold at the time desired or without adversely affecting the price.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Management Risk.</b> There is no guarantee of the Fund's performance or that the Fund will meet its objective. The market value of your investment may decline and you may suffer investment loss.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Market Risk.</b> The market price of securities owned by the Fund may rapidly or unpredictably decline due to factors affecting securities markets generally or particular industries.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Mortgage- and Asset-Backed Securities Risk.</b> Mortgage- and asset-backed securities may decline in value when defaults on the underlying mortgage or assets occur and may exhibit additional volatility in periods of changing interest rates. When interest rates decline, the prepayment of mortgages or assets underlying such securities may require the Fund to reinvest such prepaid funds at lower prevailing interest rates, resulting in reduced returns.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Multi-Style Management Risk.</b> The management of the Fund's portfolio using different investment styles can result in higher transaction costs and lower tax efficiency than other funds which adhere to a single investment style.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Regulatory Risk.</b> Changes in government regulations may adversely affect the value of a security. An insufficiently regulated industry or market might also permit inappropriate practices that adversely affect an investment.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Smaller Company Securities Risk.</b> Securities of companies with smaller market capitalizations tend to be more volatile and less liquid than larger company stocks.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>U.S. Government Obligations Risk.</b> U.S. Government obligations may be adversely affected by changes in interest rates, a default by, or decline in the credit quality of, the U.S. Government, and may not be backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. Government.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Value Style Investment Risk.</b> Value stocks may lose value and may be subject to prolonged depressed valuations.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Performance
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing changes in the Fund's performance from year to year. The Fund's average annual total returns are compared to the performance of one or more indices. Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Current month-end performance is available on the Fund's Web site at wellsfargoadvantagefunds.com.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Calendar Year Total Returns as of 12/31 each year Class R4
</b></p>
Highest Quarter: 2nd Quarter 2009
Lowest Quarter: 3rd Quarter 2008
Year-to-date total return as of 3/31/2013 is +0.97%
0.093-0.0548
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Average Annual Total Returns for the periods ended 12/31/2012 </b></p>
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<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Investment Objective
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund seeks to approximate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the Dow Jones Target 2015 Index℠.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Fees and Expenses
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">These tables are intended to help you understand the various costs and expenses you will pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment) </b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Example of Expenses
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The example below is intended to help you compare the costs of investing in the Fund with the costs of investing in other mutual funds. The example assumes a $10,000 initial investment, 5% annual total return, and that operating expenses remain the same as in the tables above. The example also assumes that the Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver shown above will only be in place for the length of the current waiver commitment. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Portfolio Turnover
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or "turns over" its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund's performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 35% of the average value of its portfolio.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Principal Investment Strategies
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">Under normal circumstances, we invest: </p>
<ul><li>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">at least 80% of the Fund's total assets in equity, fixed income and money market securities designed to approximate the holdings and weightings of the securities in the Dow Jones Target 2015 Index℠.</p>
</li></ul>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund is a gateway fund that invests in various master portfolios which in turn invest in a combination of equity, fixed income and money market securities using an asset allocation strategy designed to replicate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the Dow Jones Target 2015 Index℠. Similar to the methodology of the index, the Fund's investment strategy is to gradually reduce the Fund's potential market risk exposure over time by re-allocating the Fund's assets among these major asset classes: equity, fixed income and money market instruments. Generally, the longer the Fund's time horizon, the more of its assets are allocated to equity securities to pursue capital appreciation over the long term. As the Fund's time horizon shortens, it replaces some of its equity holdings with fixed income and money market holdings to reduce market risk and price volatility and thereby generally becomes more conservative in its asset allocation as the Fund's target year approaches and for the first 10 years after it arrives. The Fund's target year serves as a guide to the relative market risk exposure of the Fund, and your decision to invest in this Fund or another Wells Fargo Advantage Dow Jones Target Date Fund with a different target year and market risk exposure depends upon your individual risk tolerance, among other factors.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The "target year" designated in the Fund's name is the same as the year in the name of the Dow Jones Target 2015 Index℠. Although the individual goals of each investor with respect to a target year vary, an investor may intend for the target year to represent the approximate year in or around which the investor plans to begin withdrawing a portion or all of the investor's investment in the Fund and/or stop making new investments to the Fund. The Fund's goals may not align with the goals of an investor that seeks to begin to withdraw a portion or all of the investor's investment in the Fund significantly before or after the Fund's target year. In this respect, the Fund's goals may more closely align with an investor that intends to begin gradually withdrawing the value of the investor's account on or around the target year. In addition, the Fund will not have its most conservative asset allocation in the Fund's target year, which may not align with an investor's plan for withdrawing the investor's investment. The principal value of an investor's investment in the Fund is not guaranteed, and an investor may experience losses, at any time, including near, at or after the target year designated in the Fund's name. In addition, there is no guarantee that an investor's investment in the Fund will provide income at, and through the years following, the target year in the Fund's name in amounts adequate to meet the investor's goals.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">Currently, the master portfolios in which the Fund invests are the Wells Fargo Advantage Diversified Stock Portfolio, the Wells Fargo Advantage Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio, and the Wells Fargo Advantage Short-Term Investment Portfolio. The Diversified Stock Portfolio and the Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio seek to approximate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the respective equity and fixed income portions of the Dow Jones Target 2015 Index℠ by investing in the securities that comprise the sub-indexes representing the equity and fixed income asset classes, respectively, which securities may include, among others, growth and value stocks, foreign and emerging market equity investments, and securities of smaller companies, as well as debt securities, including corporate bonds, mortgage- and asset-backed securities and U.S. and foreign government obligations. The Diversified Stock Portfolio may also use derivatives, such as stock index futures in order to manage movements of the portfolio against certain indexes. The Diversified Stock Portfolio and the Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio use an optimization process, which seeks to balance the replication of index performance and security transaction costs. The Fund invests in the Short-Term Investment Portfolio to represent the cash component of the Dow Jones Target Date Indexes, but unlike the cash component of the Dow Jones Target 2015 Index℠, the Portfolio does not seek to replicate the Barclays 1-3 Month Treasury-Bill Index. This could result in potential tracking error between the performances of the Fund and the Dow Jones Target 2015 Index℠. By the time the Fund reaches its target year in 2015, its risk exposure will approach 28% of the risk of the global equity market. The Fund will not reach its lowest risk exposure of 20% of the risk of the global equity market until ten years past the Fund's target year. To measure the Fund's risk and the risk of the global equity market, we use a statistical method known as below-mean semi-variance, which quantifies portfolio risk levels by measuring only the below-average outcomes. This method is designed to provide a more useful and nuanced picture of the Fund's risk profile. As of February 28, 2013, the Dow Jones Target 2015 Index℠ included equity, fixed income and money market securities in the weights of 32%, 64% and 4%, respectively, which represent the percentage breakdown of the Fund's assets across the Diversified Stock, Diversified Fixed Income and Short-Term Investment Portfolios, respectively, as of such date, and may change over time. The Fund reserves the right to change its percentage allocation among the Portfolios as we deem necessary to meet its investment objective.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Principal Investment Risks
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">An investment in the Fund may lose money, is not a deposit of Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. or its affiliates, is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other governmental agency, and is primarily subject to the risks briefly summarized below.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Allocation Methodology Risk.</b> A Fund is subject to the risk that the allocation methodology of the Dow Jones Target Date Index will not meet an investor's goals because it will not eliminate the investment volatility that could reduce the amount of funds available for an investor to withdraw when the investor intends to begin to withdraw a portion or all of the investor's investment in the Fund or it may over-emphasize conservative investments designed to ensure capital conservation and current income, which may ultimately prevent the investor from achieving the investor's income and appreciation goals.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Counter-Party Risk.</b> A Fund may incur a loss if the other party to an investment contract, such as a derivative or a repurchase or reverse repurchase agreement, fails to fulfill its contractual obligation to the Fund.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Debt Securities Risk.</b> The issuer of a debt security may fail to pay interest or principal when due, and the value of a debt security may decline if an issuer defaults or if its credit quality deteriorates. Changes in market interest rates may reduce the value of debt securities or reduce the Fund's returns.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Derivatives Risk.</b> The use of derivatives such as futures, options and swap agreements, can lead to losses, including those magnified by leverage, particularly when derivatives are used to enhance return rather than offset risk.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Emerging Markets Risk.</b> Foreign investment risks are typically greater for securities in emerging markets, which can be more vulnerable to recessions, currency volatility, inflation and market failure.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Foreign Investment Risk.</b> Foreign investments face the potential of heightened illiquidity, greater price volatility and adverse effects of political, regulatory, tax, currency, economic or other macroeconomic developments.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Futures Risk.</b> Because the futures utilized by a Fund are standardized and exchange-traded, where the exchange serves as the ultimate counterparty for all contracts, the primary credit risk on futures contracts is the creditworthiness of the exchange itself. Futures are also subject to market risk, interest rate risk (in the case of futures contracts relating to income producing securities) and index tracking risk (in the case of stock index futures).</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Growth Style Investment Risk.</b> Growth stocks may be more expensive relative to the values of other stocks and carry potential for significant volatility and loss.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Index Tracking Risk.</b> The ability to track an index may be affected by, among other things, transaction costs and shareholder purchases and redemptions.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Issuer Risk.</b> The value of a security may decline because of adverse events or circumstances that directly relate to conditions at the issuer or any entity providing it credit or liquidity support.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Leverage Risk.</b> Leverage created by borrowing or certain investments, such as derivatives and reverse repurchase agreements, can diminish the Fund's performance and increase the volatility of the Fund's net asset value.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Liquidity Risk.</b> A security may not be able to be sold at the time desired or without adversely affecting the price.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Management Risk.</b> There is no guarantee of the Fund's performance or that the Fund will meet its objective. The market value of your investment may decline and you may suffer investment loss.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Market Risk.</b> The market price of securities owned by the Fund may rapidly or unpredictably decline due to factors affecting securities markets generally or particular industries.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Mortgage- and Asset-Backed Securities Risk.</b> Mortgage- and asset-backed securities may decline in value when defaults on the underlying mortgage or assets occur and may exhibit additional volatility in periods of changing interest rates. When interest rates decline, the prepayment of mortgages or assets underlying such securities may require the Fund to reinvest such prepaid funds at lower prevailing interest rates, resulting in reduced returns.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Multi-Style Management Risk.</b> The management of the Fund's portfolio using different investment styles can result in higher transaction costs and lower tax efficiency than other funds which adhere to a single investment style.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Regulatory Risk.</b> Changes in government regulations may adversely affect the value of a security. An insufficiently regulated industry or market might also permit inappropriate practices that adversely affect an investment.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Smaller Company Securities Risk.</b> Securities of companies with smaller market capitalizations tend to be more volatile and less liquid than larger company stocks.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>U.S. Government Obligations Risk.</b> U.S. Government obligations may be adversely affected by changes in interest rates, a default by, or decline in the credit quality of, the U.S. Government, and may not be backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. Government.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Value Style Investment Risk.</b> Value stocks may lose value and may be subject to prolonged depressed valuations.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Performance
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing changes in the Fund's performance from year to year. The Fund's average annual total returns are compared to the performance of one or more indices. Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Current month-end performance is available on the Fund's Web site at wellsfargoadvantagefunds.com.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Calendar Year Total Returns as of 12/31 each year Class R4
</b></p>
Highest Quarter: 2nd Quarter 2009
Lowest Quarter: 4th Quarter 2008
Year-to-date total return as of 3/31/2013 is +1.99%
0.102-0.0721
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Average Annual Total Returns for the periods ended 12/31/2012 </b></p>
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<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Investment Objective
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund seeks to approximate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the Dow Jones Target 2020 Index℠.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Fees and Expenses
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">These tables are intended to help you understand the various costs and expenses you will pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment) </b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Example of Expenses
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The example below is intended to help you compare the costs of investing in the Fund with the costs of investing in other mutual funds. The example assumes a $10,000 initial investment, 5% annual total return, and that operating expenses remain the same as in the tables above. The example also assumes that the Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver shown above will only be in place for the length of the current waiver commitment. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Portfolio Turnover
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or "turns over" its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund's performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 32% of the average value of its portfolio.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Principal Investment Strategies
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">Under normal circumstances, we invest: </p>
<ul><li>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">at least 80% of the Fund's total assets in equity, fixed income and money market securities designed to approximate the holdings and weightings of the securities in the Dow Jones Target 2020 Index℠.</p>
</li></ul>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund is a gateway fund that invests in various master portfolios which in turn invest in a combination of equity, fixed income and money market securities using an asset allocation strategy designed to replicate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the Dow Jones Target 2020 Index℠. Similar to the methodology of the index, the Fund's investment strategy is to gradually reduce the Fund's potential market risk exposure over time by re-allocating the Fund's assets among these major asset classes: equity, fixed income and money market instruments. Generally, the longer the Fund's time horizon, the more of its assets are allocated to equity securities to pursue capital appreciation over the long term. As the Fund's time horizon shortens, it replaces some of its equity holdings with fixed income and money market holdings to reduce market risk and price volatility and thereby generally becomes more conservative in its asset allocation as the Fund's target year approaches and for the first 10 years after it arrives. The Fund's target year serves as a guide to the relative market risk exposure of the Fund, and your decision to invest in this Fund or another Wells Fargo Advantage Dow Jones Target Date Fund with a different target year and market risk exposure depends upon your individual risk tolerance, among other factors.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The "target year" designated in the Fund's name is the same as the year in the name of the Dow Jones Target 2020 Index℠. Although the individual goals of each investor with respect to a target year vary, an investor may intend for the target year to represent the approximate year in or around which the investor plans to begin withdrawing a portion or all of the investor's investment in the Fund and/or stop making new investments to the Fund. The Fund's goals may not align with the goals of an investor that seeks to begin to withdraw a portion or all of the investor's investment in the Fund significantly before or after the Fund's target year. In this respect, the Fund's goals may more closely align with an investor that intends to begin gradually withdrawing the value of the investor's account on or around the target year. In addition, the Fund will not have its most conservative asset allocation in the Fund's target year, which may not align with an investor's plan for withdrawing the investor's investment. The principal value of an investor's investment in the Fund is not guaranteed, and an investor may experience losses, at any time, including near, at or after the target year designated in the Fund's name. In addition, there is no guarantee that an investor's investment in the Fund will provide income at, and through the years following, the target year in the Fund's name in amounts adequate to meet the investor's goals.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">Currently, the master portfolios in which the Fund invests are the Wells Fargo Advantage Diversified Stock Portfolio, the Wells Fargo Advantage Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio, and the Wells Fargo Advantage Short-Term Investment Portfolio. The Diversified Stock Portfolio and the Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio seek to approximate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the respective equity and fixed income portions of the Dow Jones Target 2020 Index℠ by investing in the securities that comprise the sub-indexes representing the equity and fixed income asset classes, respectively, which securities may include, among others, growth and value stocks, foreign and emerging market equity investments, and securities of smaller companies, as well as debt securities, including corporate bonds, mortgage- and asset-backed securities and U.S. and foreign government obligations. The Diversified Stock Portfolio may also use derivatives, such as stock index futures in order to manage movements of the portfolio against certain indexes. The Diversified Stock Portfolio and the Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio use an optimization process, which seeks to balance the replication of index performance and security transaction costs. The Fund invests in the Short-Term Investment Portfolio to represent the cash component of the Dow Jones Target Date Indexes, but unlike the cash component of the Dow Jones Target 2020 Index℠, the Portfolio does not seek to replicate the Barclays 1-3 Month Treasury-Bill Index. This could result in potential tracking error between the performances of the Fund and the Dow Jones Target 2020 Index℠. By the time the Fund reaches its target year in 2020, its risk exposure will approach 28% of the risk of the global equity market. The Fund will not reach its lowest risk exposure of 20% of the risk of the global equity market until ten years past the Fund's target year. To measure the Fund's risk and the risk of the global equity market, we use a statistical method known as below-mean semi-variance, which quantifies portfolio risk levels by measuring only the below-average outcomes. This method is designed to provide a more useful and nuanced picture of the Fund's risk profile. As of February 28, 2013, the Dow Jones Target 2020 Index℠ included equity, fixed income and money market securities in the weights of 44%, 52% and 4%, respectively, which represent the percentage breakdown of the Fund's assets across the Diversified Stock, Diversified Fixed Income and Short-Term Investment Portfolios, respectively, as of such date, and may change over time. The Fund reserves the right to change its percentage allocation among the Portfolios as we deem necessary to meet its investment objective.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Principal Investment Risks
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">An investment in the Fund may lose money, is not a deposit of Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. or its affiliates, is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other governmental agency, and is primarily subject to the risks briefly summarized below.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Allocation Methodology Risk.</b> A Fund is subject to the risk that the allocation methodology of the Dow Jones Target Date Index will not meet an investor's goals because it will not eliminate the investment volatility that could reduce the amount of funds available for an investor to withdraw when the investor intends to begin to withdraw a portion or all of the investor's investment in the Fund or it may over-emphasize conservative investments designed to ensure capital conservation and current income, which may ultimately prevent the investor from achieving the investor's income and appreciation goals.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Counter-Party Risk.</b> A Fund may incur a loss if the other party to an investment contract, such as a derivative or a repurchase or reverse repurchase agreement, fails to fulfill its contractual obligation to the Fund.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Debt Securities Risk.</b> The issuer of a debt security may fail to pay interest or principal when due, and the value of a debt security may decline if an issuer defaults or if its credit quality deteriorates. Changes in market interest rates may reduce the value of debt securities or reduce the Fund's returns.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Derivatives Risk.</b> The use of derivatives such as futures, options and swap agreements, can lead to losses, including those magnified by leverage, particularly when derivatives are used to enhance return rather than offset risk.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Emerging Markets Risk.</b> Foreign investment risks are typically greater for securities in emerging markets, which can be more vulnerable to recessions, currency volatility, inflation and market failure.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Foreign Investment Risk.</b> Foreign investments face the potential of heightened illiquidity, greater price volatility and adverse effects of political, regulatory, tax, currency, economic or other macroeconomic developments.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Futures Risk.</b> Because the futures utilized by a Fund are standardized and exchange-traded, where the exchange serves as the ultimate counterparty for all contracts, the primary credit risk on futures contracts is the creditworthiness of the exchange itself. Futures are also subject to market risk, interest rate risk (in the case of futures contracts relating to income producing securities) and index tracking risk (in the case of stock index futures).</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Growth Style Investment Risk.</b> Growth stocks may be more expensive relative to the values of other stocks and carry potential for significant volatility and loss.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Index Tracking Risk.</b> The ability to track an index may be affected by, among other things, transaction costs and shareholder purchases and redemptions.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Issuer Risk.</b> The value of a security may decline because of adverse events or circumstances that directly relate to conditions at the issuer or any entity providing it credit or liquidity support.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Leverage Risk.</b> Leverage created by borrowing or certain investments, such as derivatives and reverse repurchase agreements, can diminish the Fund's performance and increase the volatility of the Fund's net asset value.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Liquidity Risk.</b> A security may not be able to be sold at the time desired or without adversely affecting the price.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Management Risk.</b> There is no guarantee of the Fund's performance or that the Fund will meet its objective. The market value of your investment may decline and you may suffer investment loss.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Market Risk.</b> The market price of securities owned by the Fund may rapidly or unpredictably decline due to factors affecting securities markets generally or particular industries.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Mortgage- and Asset-Backed Securities Risk.</b> Mortgage- and asset-backed securities may decline in value when defaults on the underlying mortgage or assets occur and may exhibit additional volatility in periods of changing interest rates. When interest rates decline, the prepayment of mortgages or assets underlying such securities may require the Fund to reinvest such prepaid funds at lower prevailing interest rates, resulting in reduced returns.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Multi-Style Management Risk.</b> The management of the Fund's portfolio using different investment styles can result in higher transaction costs and lower tax efficiency than other funds which adhere to a single investment style.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Regulatory Risk.</b> Changes in government regulations may adversely affect the value of a security. An insufficiently regulated industry or market might also permit inappropriate practices that adversely affect an investment.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Smaller Company Securities Risk.</b> Securities of companies with smaller market capitalizations tend to be more volatile and less liquid than larger company stocks.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>U.S. Government Obligations Risk.</b> U.S. Government obligations may be adversely affected by changes in interest rates, a default by, or decline in the credit quality of, the U.S. Government, and may not be backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. Government.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Value Style Investment Risk.</b> Value stocks may lose value and may be subject to prolonged depressed valuations.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Performance
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing changes in the Fund's performance from year to year. The Fund's average annual total returns are compared to the performance of one or more indices. Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Current month-end performance is available on the Fund's Web site at wellsfargoadvantagefunds.com.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Calendar Year Total Returns as of 12/31 each year Class R4
</b></p>
Highest Quarter: 3rd Quarter 2009
Lowest Quarter: 4th Quarter 2008
Year-to-date total return as of 3/31/2013 is +3.10%
0.1247-0.1072
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Average Annual Total Returns for the periods ended 12/31/2012 </b></p>
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<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Investment Objective
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund seeks to approximate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the Dow Jones Target 2025 Index℠.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Fees and Expenses
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">These tables are intended to help you understand the various costs and expenses you will pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment) </b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Example of Expenses
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The example below is intended to help you compare the costs of investing in the Fund with the costs of investing in other mutual funds. The example assumes a $10,000 initial investment, 5% annual total return, and that operating expenses remain the same as in the tables above. The example also assumes that the Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver shown above will only be in place for the length of the current waiver commitment. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Portfolio Turnover
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or "turns over" its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund's performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 28% of the average value of its portfolio.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Principal Investment Strategies
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">Under normal circumstances, we invest: </p>
<ul><li>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">at least 80% of the Fund's total assets in equity, fixed income and money market securities designed to approximate the holdings and weightings of the securities in the Dow Jones Target 2025 Index℠.</p>
</li></ul>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund is a gateway fund that invests in various master portfolios which in turn invest in a combination of equity, fixed income and money market securities using an asset allocation strategy designed to replicate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the Dow Jones Target 2025 Index℠. Similar to the methodology of the index, the Fund's investment strategy is to gradually reduce the Fund's potential market risk exposure over time by re-allocating the Fund's assets among these major asset classes: equity, fixed income and money market instruments. Generally, the longer the Fund's time horizon, the more of its assets are allocated to equity securities to pursue capital appreciation over the long term. As the Fund's time horizon shortens, it replaces some of its equity holdings with fixed income and money market holdings to reduce market risk and price volatility and thereby generally becomes more conservative in its asset allocation as the Fund's target year approaches and for the first 10 years after it arrives. The Fund's target year serves as a guide to the relative market risk exposure of the Fund, and your decision to invest in this Fund or another Wells Fargo Advantage Dow Jones Target Date Fund with a different target year and market risk exposure depends upon your individual risk tolerance, among other factors.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The "target year" designated in the Fund's name is the same as the year in the name of the Dow Jones Target 2025 Index℠. Although the individual goals of each investor with respect to a target year vary, an investor may intend for the target year to represent the approximate year in or around which the investor plans to begin withdrawing a portion or all of the investor's investment in the Fund and/or stop making new investments to the Fund. The Fund's goals may not align with the goals of an investor that seeks to begin to withdraw a portion or all of the investor's investment in the Fund significantly before or after the Fund's target year. In this respect, the Fund's goals may more closely align with an investor that intends to begin gradually withdrawing the value of the investor's account on or around the target year. In addition, the Fund will not have its most conservative asset allocation in the Fund's target year, which may not align with an investor's plan for withdrawing the investor's investment. The principal value of an investor's investment in the Fund is not guaranteed, and an investor may experience losses, at any time, including near, at or after the target year designated in the Fund's name. In addition, there is no guarantee that an investor's investment in the Fund will provide income at, and through the years following, the target year in the Fund's name in amounts adequate to meet the investor's goals.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">Currently, the master portfolios in which the Fund invests are the Wells Fargo Advantage Diversified Stock Portfolio, the Wells Fargo Advantage Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio, and the Wells Fargo Advantage Short-Term Investment Portfolio. The Diversified Stock Portfolio and the Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio seek to approximate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the respective equity and fixed income portions of the Dow Jones Target 2025 Index℠ by investing in the securities that comprise the sub-indexes representing the equity and fixed income asset classes, respectively, which securities may include, among others, growth and value stocks, foreign and emerging market equity investments, and securities of smaller companies, as well as debt securities, including corporate bonds, mortgage- and asset-backed securities and U.S. and foreign government obligations. The Diversified Stock Portfolio may also use derivatives, such as stock index futures in order to manage movements of the portfolio against certain indexes. The Diversified Stock Portfolio and the Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio use an optimization process, which seeks to balance the replication of index performance and security transaction costs. The Fund invests in the Short-Term Investment Portfolio to represent the cash component of the Dow Jones Target Date Indexes, but unlike the cash component of the Dow Jones Target 2025 Index℠, the Portfolio does not seek to replicate the Barclays 1-3 Month Treasury-Bill Index. This could result in potential tracking error between the performances of the Fund and the Dow Jones Target 2025 Index℠. By the time the Fund reaches its target year in 2025, its risk exposure will approach 28% of the risk of the global equity market. The Fund will not reach its lowest risk exposure of 20% of the risk of the global equity market until ten years past the Fund's target year. To measure the Fund's risk and the risk of the global equity market, we use a statistical method known as below-mean semi-variance, which quantifies portfolio risk levels by measuring only the below-average outcomes. This method is designed to provide a more useful and nuanced picture of the Fund's risk profile. As of February 28, 2013, the Dow Jones Target 2025 Index℠ included equity, fixed income and money market securities in the weights of 56%, 40% and 4%, respectively, which represent the percentage breakdown of the Fund's assets across the Diversified Stock, Diversified Fixed Income and Short-Term Investment Portfolios, respectively, as of such date, and may change over time. The Fund reserves the right to change its percentage allocation among the Portfolios as we deem necessary to meet its investment objective.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Principal Investment Risks
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">An investment in the Fund may lose money, is not a deposit of Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. or its affiliates, is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other governmental agency, and is primarily subject to the risks briefly summarized below.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Allocation Methodology Risk.</b> A Fund is subject to the risk that the allocation methodology of the Dow Jones Target Date Index will not meet an investor's goals because it will not eliminate the investment volatility that could reduce the amount of funds available for an investor to withdraw when the investor intends to begin to withdraw a portion or all of the investor's investment in the Fund or it may over-emphasize conservative investments designed to ensure capital conservation and current income, which may ultimately prevent the investor from achieving the investor's income and appreciation goals.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Counter-Party Risk.</b> A Fund may incur a loss if the other party to an investment contract, such as a derivative or a repurchase or reverse repurchase agreement, fails to fulfill its contractual obligation to the Fund.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Debt Securities Risk.</b> The issuer of a debt security may fail to pay interest or principal when due, and the value of a debt security may decline if an issuer defaults or if its credit quality deteriorates. Changes in market interest rates may reduce the value of debt securities or reduce the Fund's returns.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Derivatives Risk.</b> The use of derivatives such as futures, options and swap agreements, can lead to losses, including those magnified by leverage, particularly when derivatives are used to enhance return rather than offset risk.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Emerging Markets Risk.</b> Foreign investment risks are typically greater for securities in emerging markets, which can be more vulnerable to recessions, currency volatility, inflation and market failure.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Foreign Investment Risk.</b> Foreign investments face the potential of heightened illiquidity, greater price volatility and adverse effects of political, regulatory, tax, currency, economic or other macroeconomic developments.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Futures Risk.</b> Because the futures utilized by a Fund are standardized and exchange-traded, where the exchange serves as the ultimate counterparty for all contracts, the primary credit risk on futures contracts is the creditworthiness of the exchange itself. Futures are also subject to market risk, interest rate risk (in the case of futures contracts relating to income producing securities) and index tracking risk (in the case of stock index futures).</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Growth Style Investment Risk.</b> Growth stocks may be more expensive relative to the values of other stocks and carry potential for significant volatility and loss.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Index Tracking Risk.</b> The ability to track an index may be affected by, among other things, transaction costs and shareholder purchases and redemptions.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Issuer Risk.</b> The value of a security may decline because of adverse events or circumstances that directly relate to conditions at the issuer or any entity providing it credit or liquidity support.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Leverage Risk.</b> Leverage created by borrowing or certain investments, such as derivatives and reverse repurchase agreements, can diminish the Fund's performance and increase the volatility of the Fund's net asset value.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Liquidity Risk.</b> A security may not be able to be sold at the time desired or without adversely affecting the price.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Management Risk.</b> There is no guarantee of the Fund's performance or that the Fund will meet its objective. The market value of your investment may decline and you may suffer investment loss.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Market Risk.</b> The market price of securities owned by the Fund may rapidly or unpredictably decline due to factors affecting securities markets generally or particular industries.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Mortgage- and Asset-Backed Securities Risk.</b> Mortgage- and asset-backed securities may decline in value when defaults on the underlying mortgage or assets occur and may exhibit additional volatility in periods of changing interest rates. When interest rates decline, the prepayment of mortgages or assets underlying such securities may require the Fund to reinvest such prepaid funds at lower prevailing interest rates, resulting in reduced returns.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Multi-Style Management Risk.</b> The management of the Fund's portfolio using different investment styles can result in higher transaction costs and lower tax efficiency than other funds which adhere to a single investment style.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Regulatory Risk.</b> Changes in government regulations may adversely affect the value of a security. An insufficiently regulated industry or market might also permit inappropriate practices that adversely affect an investment.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Smaller Company Securities Risk.</b> Securities of companies with smaller market capitalizations tend to be more volatile and less liquid than larger company stocks.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>U.S. Government Obligations Risk.</b> U.S. Government obligations may be adversely affected by changes in interest rates, a default by, or decline in the credit quality of, the U.S. Government, and may not be backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. Government.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Value Style Investment Risk.</b> Value stocks may lose value and may be subject to prolonged depressed valuations.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Performance
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing changes in the Fund's performance from year to year. The Fund's average annual total returns are compared to the performance of one or more indices. Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Current month-end performance is available on the Fund's Web site at wellsfargoadvantagefunds.com.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Calendar Year Total Returns as of 12/31 each year Class R4
</b></p>
Highest Quarter: 2nd Quarter 2009
Lowest Quarter: 4th Quarter 2008
Year-to-date total return as of 3/31/2013 is +4.30%
0.1509-0.1428
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Average Annual Total Returns for the periods ended 12/31/2012 </b></p>
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<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Investment Objective
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund seeks to approximate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the Dow Jones Target 2030 Index℠.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Fees and Expenses
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">These tables are intended to help you understand the various costs and expenses you will pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment) </b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Example of Expenses
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The example below is intended to help you compare the costs of investing in the Fund with the costs of investing in other mutual funds. The example assumes a $10,000 initial investment, 5% annual total return, and that operating expenses remain the same as in the tables above. The example also assumes that the Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver shown above will only be in place for the length of the current waiver commitment. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Portfolio Turnover
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or "turns over" its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund's performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 25% of the average value of its portfolio.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Principal Investment Strategies
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">Under normal circumstances, we invest: </p>
<ul><li>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">at least 80% of the Fund's total assets in equity, fixed income and money market securities designed to approximate the holdings and weightings of the securities in the Dow Jones Target 2030 Index℠.</p>
</li></ul>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund is a gateway fund that invests in various master portfolios which in turn invest in a combination of equity, fixed income and money market securities using an asset allocation strategy designed to replicate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the Dow Jones Target 2030 Index℠. Similar to the methodology of the index, the Fund's investment strategy is to gradually reduce the Fund's potential market risk exposure over time by re-allocating the Fund's assets among these major asset classes: equity, fixed income and money market instruments. Generally, the longer the Fund's time horizon, the more of its assets are allocated to equity securities to pursue capital appreciation over the long term. As the Fund's time horizon shortens, it replaces some of its equity holdings with fixed income and money market holdings to reduce market risk and price volatility and thereby generally becomes more conservative in its asset allocation as the Fund's target year approaches and for the first 10 years after it arrives. The Fund's target year serves as a guide to the relative market risk exposure of the Fund, and your decision to invest in this Fund or another Wells Fargo Advantage Dow Jones Target Date Fund with a different target year and market risk exposure depends upon your individual risk tolerance, among other factors.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The "target year" designated in the Fund's name is the same as the year in the name of the Dow Jones Target 2030 Index℠. Although the individual goals of each investor with respect to a target year vary, an investor may intend for the target year to represent the approximate year in or around which the investor plans to begin withdrawing a portion or all of the investor's investment in the Fund and/or stop making new investments to the Fund. The Fund's goals may not align with the goals of an investor that seeks to begin to withdraw a portion or all of the investor's investment in the Fund significantly before or after the Fund's target year. In this respect, the Fund's goals may more closely align with an investor that intends to begin gradually withdrawing the value of the investor's account on or around the target year. In addition, the Fund will not have its most conservative asset allocation in the Fund's target year, which may not align with an investor's plan for withdrawing the investor's investment. The principal value of an investor's investment in the Fund is not guaranteed, and an investor may experience losses, at any time, including near, at or after the target year designated in the Fund's name. In addition, there is no guarantee that an investor's investment in the Fund will provide income at, and through the years following, the target year in the Fund's name in amounts adequate to meet the investor's goals.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">Currently, the master portfolios in which the Fund invests are the Wells Fargo Advantage Diversified Stock Portfolio, the Wells Fargo Advantage Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio, and the Wells Fargo Advantage Short-Term Investment Portfolio. The Diversified Stock Portfolio and the Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio seek to approximate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the respective equity and fixed income portions of the Dow Jones Target 2030 Index℠ by investing in the securities that comprise the sub-indexes representing the equity and fixed income asset classes, respectively, which securities may include, among others, growth and value stocks, foreign and emerging market equity investments, and securities of smaller companies, as well as debt securities, including corporate bonds, mortgage- and asset-backed securities and U.S. and foreign government obligations. The Diversified Stock Portfolio may also use derivatives, such as stock index futures in order to manage movements of the portfolio against certain indexes. The Diversified Stock Portfolio and the Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio use an optimization process, which seeks to balance the replication of index performance and security transaction costs. The Fund invests in the Short-Term Investment Portfolio to represent the cash component of the Dow Jones Target Date Indexes, but unlike the cash component of the Dow Jones Target 2030 Index℠, the Portfolio does not seek to replicate the Barclays 1-3 Month Treasury-Bill Index. This could result in potential tracking error between the performances of the Fund and the Dow Jones Target 2030 Index℠. By the time the Fund reaches its target year in 2030, its risk exposure will approach 28% of the risk of the global equity market. The Fund will not reach its lowest risk exposure of 20% of the risk of the global equity market until ten years past the Fund's target year. To measure the Fund's risk and the risk of the global equity market, we use a statistical method known as below-mean semi-variance, which quantifies portfolio risk levels by measuring only the below-average outcomes. This method is designed to provide a more useful and nuanced picture of the Fund's risk profile. As of February 28, 2013, the Dow Jones Target 2030 Index℠ included equity, fixed income and money market securities in the weights of 68%, 28% and 4%, respectively, which represent the percentage breakdown of the Fund's assets across the Diversified Stock, Diversified Fixed Income and Short-Term Investment Portfolios, respectively, as of such date, and may change over time. The Fund reserves the right to change its percentage allocation among the Portfolios as we deem necessary to meet its investment objective.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Principal Investment Risks
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">An investment in the Fund may lose money, is not a deposit of Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. or its affiliates, is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other governmental agency, and is primarily subject to the risks briefly summarized below.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Allocation Methodology Risk.</b> A Fund is subject to the risk that the allocation methodology of the Dow Jones Target Date Index will not meet an investor's goals because it will not eliminate the investment volatility that could reduce the amount of funds available for an investor to withdraw when the investor intends to begin to withdraw a portion or all of the investor's investment in the Fund or it may over-emphasize conservative investments designed to ensure capital conservation and current income, which may ultimately prevent the investor from achieving the investor's income and appreciation goals.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Counter-Party Risk.</b> A Fund may incur a loss if the other party to an investment contract, such as a derivative or a repurchase or reverse repurchase agreement, fails to fulfill its contractual obligation to the Fund.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Debt Securities Risk.</b> The issuer of a debt security may fail to pay interest or principal when due, and the value of a debt security may decline if an issuer defaults or if its credit quality deteriorates. Changes in market interest rates may reduce the value of debt securities or reduce the Fund's returns.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Derivatives Risk.</b> The use of derivatives such as futures, options and swap agreements, can lead to losses, including those magnified by leverage, particularly when derivatives are used to enhance return rather than offset risk.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Emerging Markets Risk.</b> Foreign investment risks are typically greater for securities in emerging markets, which can be more vulnerable to recessions, currency volatility, inflation and market failure.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Foreign Investment Risk.</b> Foreign investments face the potential of heightened illiquidity, greater price volatility and adverse effects of political, regulatory, tax, currency, economic or other macroeconomic developments.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Futures Risk.</b> Because the futures utilized by a Fund are standardized and exchange-traded, where the exchange serves as the ultimate counterparty for all contracts, the primary credit risk on futures contracts is the creditworthiness of the exchange itself. Futures are also subject to market risk, interest rate risk (in the case of futures contracts relating to income producing securities) and index tracking risk (in the case of stock index futures).</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Growth Style Investment Risk.</b> Growth stocks may be more expensive relative to the values of other stocks and carry potential for significant volatility and loss.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Index Tracking Risk.</b> The ability to track an index may be affected by, among other things, transaction costs and shareholder purchases and redemptions.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Issuer Risk.</b> The value of a security may decline because of adverse events or circumstances that directly relate to conditions at the issuer or any entity providing it credit or liquidity support.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Leverage Risk.</b> Leverage created by borrowing or certain investments, such as derivatives and reverse repurchase agreements, can diminish the Fund's performance and increase the volatility of the Fund's net asset value.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Liquidity Risk.</b> A security may not be able to be sold at the time desired or without adversely affecting the price.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Management Risk.</b> There is no guarantee of the Fund's performance or that the Fund will meet its objective. The market value of your investment may decline and you may suffer investment loss.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Market Risk.</b> The market price of securities owned by the Fund may rapidly or unpredictably decline due to factors affecting securities markets generally or particular industries.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Mortgage- and Asset-Backed Securities Risk.</b> Mortgage- and asset-backed securities may decline in value when defaults on the underlying mortgage or assets occur and may exhibit additional volatility in periods of changing interest rates. When interest rates decline, the prepayment of mortgages or assets underlying such securities may require the Fund to reinvest such prepaid funds at lower prevailing interest rates, resulting in reduced returns.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Multi-Style Management Risk.</b> The management of the Fund's portfolio using different investment styles can result in higher transaction costs and lower tax efficiency than other funds which adhere to a single investment style.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Regulatory Risk.</b> Changes in government regulations may adversely affect the value of a security. An insufficiently regulated industry or market might also permit inappropriate practices that adversely affect an investment.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Smaller Company Securities Risk.</b> Securities of companies with smaller market capitalizations tend to be more volatile and less liquid than larger company stocks.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>U.S. Government Obligations Risk.</b> U.S. Government obligations may be adversely affected by changes in interest rates, a default by, or decline in the credit quality of, the U.S. Government, and may not be backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. Government.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Value Style Investment Risk.</b> Value stocks may lose value and may be subject to prolonged depressed valuations.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Performance
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing changes in the Fund's performance from year to year. The Fund's average annual total returns are compared to the performance of one or more indices. Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Current month-end performance is available on the Fund's Web site at wellsfargoadvantagefunds.com.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Calendar Year Total Returns as of 12/31 each year Class R4
</b></p>
Highest Quarter: 3rd Quarter 2009
Lowest Quarter: 4th Quarter 2008
Year-to-date total return as of 3/31/2013 is +5.49%
0.1777-0.1737
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Average Annual Total Returns for the periods ended 12/31/2012 </b></p>
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<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Investment Objective
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund seeks to approximate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the Dow Jones Target 2035 Index℠.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Fees and Expenses
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">These tables are intended to help you understand the various costs and expenses you will pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment) </b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Example of Expenses
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The example below is intended to help you compare the costs of investing in the Fund with the costs of investing in other mutual funds. The example assumes a $10,000 initial investment, 5% annual total return, and that operating expenses remain the same as in the tables above. The example also assumes that the Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver shown above will only be in place for the length of the current waiver commitment. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Portfolio Turnover
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or "turns over" its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund's performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 22% of the average value of its portfolio.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Principal Investment Strategies
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">Under normal circumstances, we invest: </p>
<ul><li>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">at least 80% of the Fund's total assets in equity, fixed income and money market securities designed to approximate the holdings and weightings of the securities in the Dow Jones Target 2035 Index℠.</p>
</li></ul>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund is a gateway fund that invests in various master portfolios which in turn invest in a combination of equity, fixed income and money market securities using an asset allocation strategy designed to replicate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the Dow Jones Target 2035 Index℠. Similar to the methodology of the index, the Fund's investment strategy is to gradually reduce the Fund's potential market risk exposure over time by re-allocating the Fund's assets among these major asset classes: equity, fixed income and money market instruments. Generally, the longer the Fund's time horizon, the more of its assets are allocated to equity securities to pursue capital appreciation over the long term. As the Fund's time horizon shortens, it replaces some of its equity holdings with fixed income and money market holdings to reduce market risk and price volatility and thereby generally becomes more conservative in its asset allocation as the Fund's target year approaches and for the first 10 years after it arrives. The Fund's target year serves as a guide to the relative market risk exposure of the Fund, and your decision to invest in this Fund or another Wells Fargo Advantage Dow Jones Target Date Fund with a different target year and market risk exposure depends upon your individual risk tolerance, among other factors.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The "target year" designated in the Fund's name is the same as the year in the name of the Dow Jones Target 2035 Index℠. Although the individual goals of each investor with respect to a target year vary, an investor may intend for the target year to represent the approximate year in or around which the investor plans to begin withdrawing a portion or all of the investor's investment in the Fund and/or stop making new investments to the Fund. The Fund's goals may not align with the goals of an investor that seeks to begin to withdraw a portion or all of the investor's investment in the Fund significantly before or after the Fund's target year. In this respect, the Fund's goals may more closely align with an investor that intends to begin gradually withdrawing the value of the investor's account on or around the target year. In addition, the Fund will not have its most conservative asset allocation in the Fund's target year, which may not align with an investor's plan for withdrawing the investor's investment. The principal value of an investor's investment in the Fund is not guaranteed, and an investor may experience losses, at any time, including near, at or after the target year designated in the Fund's name. In addition, there is no guarantee that an investor's investment in the Fund will provide income at, and through the years following, the target year in the Fund's name in amounts adequate to meet the investor's goals.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">Currently, the master portfolios in which the Fund invests are the Wells Fargo Advantage Diversified Stock Portfolio, the Wells Fargo Advantage Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio, and the Wells Fargo Advantage Short-Term Investment Portfolio. The Diversified Stock Portfolio and the Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio seek to approximate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the respective equity and fixed income portions of the Dow Jones Target 2035 Index℠ by investing in the securities that comprise the sub-indexes representing the equity and fixed income asset classes, respectively, which securities may include, among others, growth and value stocks, foreign and emerging market equity investments, and securities of smaller companies, as well as debt securities, including corporate bonds, mortgage- and asset-backed securities and U.S. and foreign government obligations. The Diversified Stock Portfolio may also use derivatives, such as stock index futures in order to manage movements of the portfolio against certain indexes. The Diversified Stock Portfolio and the Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio use an optimization process, which seeks to balance the replication of index performance and security transaction costs. The Fund invests in the Short-Term Investment Portfolio to represent the cash component of the Dow Jones Target Date Indexes, but unlike the cash component of the Dow Jones Target 2035 Index℠, the Portfolio does not seek to replicate the Barclays 1-3 Month Treasury-Bill Index. This could result in potential tracking error between the performances of the Fund and the Dow Jones Target 2035 Index℠. By the time the Fund reaches its target year in 2035, its risk exposure will approach 28% of the risk of the global equity market. The Fund will not reach its lowest risk exposure of 20% of the risk of the global equity market until ten years past the Fund's target year. To measure the Fund's risk and the risk of the global equity market, we use a statistical method known as below-mean semi-variance, which quantifies portfolio risk levels by measuring only the below-average outcomes. This method is designed to provide a more useful and nuanced picture of the Fund's risk profile. As of February 28, 2013, the Dow Jones Target 2035 Index℠ included equity, fixed income and money market securities in the weights of 79%, 17% and 4%, respectively, which represent the percentage breakdown of the Fund's assets across the Diversified Stock, Diversified Fixed Income and Short-Term Investment Portfolios, respectively, as of such date, and may change over time. The Fund reserves the right to change its percentage allocation among the Portfolios as we deem necessary to meet its investment objective.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Principal Investment Risks
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">An investment in the Fund may lose money, is not a deposit of Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. or its affiliates, is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other governmental agency, and is primarily subject to the risks briefly summarized below.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Allocation Methodology Risk.</b> A Fund is subject to the risk that the allocation methodology of the Dow Jones Target Date Index will not meet an investor's goals because it will not eliminate the investment volatility that could reduce the amount of funds available for an investor to withdraw when the investor intends to begin to withdraw a portion or all of the investor's investment in the Fund or it may over-emphasize conservative investments designed to ensure capital conservation and current income, which may ultimately prevent the investor from achieving the investor's income and appreciation goals.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Counter-Party Risk.</b> A Fund may incur a loss if the other party to an investment contract, such as a derivative or a repurchase or reverse repurchase agreement, fails to fulfill its contractual obligation to the Fund.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Debt Securities Risk.</b> The issuer of a debt security may fail to pay interest or principal when due, and the value of a debt security may decline if an issuer defaults or if its credit quality deteriorates. Changes in market interest rates may reduce the value of debt securities or reduce the Fund's returns.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Derivatives Risk.</b> The use of derivatives such as futures, options and swap agreements, can lead to losses, including those magnified by leverage, particularly when derivatives are used to enhance return rather than offset risk.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Emerging Markets Risk.</b> Foreign investment risks are typically greater for securities in emerging markets, which can be more vulnerable to recessions, currency volatility, inflation and market failure.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Foreign Investment Risk.</b> Foreign investments face the potential of heightened illiquidity, greater price volatility and adverse effects of political, regulatory, tax, currency, economic or other macroeconomic developments.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Futures Risk.</b> Because the futures utilized by a Fund are standardized and exchange-traded, where the exchange serves as the ultimate counterparty for all contracts, the primary credit risk on futures contracts is the creditworthiness of the exchange itself. Futures are also subject to market risk, interest rate risk (in the case of futures contracts relating to income producing securities) and index tracking risk (in the case of stock index futures).</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Growth Style Investment Risk.</b> Growth stocks may be more expensive relative to the values of other stocks and carry potential for significant volatility and loss.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Index Tracking Risk.</b> The ability to track an index may be affected by, among other things, transaction costs and shareholder purchases and redemptions.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Issuer Risk.</b> The value of a security may decline because of adverse events or circumstances that directly relate to conditions at the issuer or any entity providing it credit or liquidity support.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Leverage Risk.</b> Leverage created by borrowing or certain investments, such as derivatives and reverse repurchase agreements, can diminish the Fund's performance and increase the volatility of the Fund's net asset value.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Liquidity Risk.</b> A security may not be able to be sold at the time desired or without adversely affecting the price.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Management Risk.</b> There is no guarantee of the Fund's performance or that the Fund will meet its objective. The market value of your investment may decline and you may suffer investment loss.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Market Risk.</b> The market price of securities owned by the Fund may rapidly or unpredictably decline due to factors affecting securities markets generally or particular industries.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Mortgage- and Asset-Backed Securities Risk.</b> Mortgage- and asset-backed securities may decline in value when defaults on the underlying mortgage or assets occur and may exhibit additional volatility in periods of changing interest rates. When interest rates decline, the prepayment of mortgages or assets underlying such securities may require the Fund to reinvest such prepaid funds at lower prevailing interest rates, resulting in reduced returns.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Multi-Style Management Risk.</b> The management of the Fund's portfolio using different investment styles can result in higher transaction costs and lower tax efficiency than other funds which adhere to a single investment style.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Regulatory Risk.</b> Changes in government regulations may adversely affect the value of a security. An insufficiently regulated industry or market might also permit inappropriate practices that adversely affect an investment.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Smaller Company Securities Risk.</b> Securities of companies with smaller market capitalizations tend to be more volatile and less liquid than larger company stocks.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>U.S. Government Obligations Risk.</b> U.S. Government obligations may be adversely affected by changes in interest rates, a default by, or decline in the credit quality of, the U.S. Government, and may not be backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. Government.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Value Style Investment Risk.</b> Value stocks may lose value and may be subject to prolonged depressed valuations.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Performance
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing changes in the Fund's performance from year to year. The Fund's average annual total returns are compared to the performance of one or more indices. Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Current month-end performance is available on the Fund's Web site at wellsfargoadvantagefunds.com.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Calendar Year Total Returns as of 12/31 each year R4
</b></p>
Highest Quarter: 2nd Quarter 2009
Lowest Quarter: 4th Quarter 2008
Year-to-date total return as of 3/31/2013 is +6.53%
0.1962-0.1941
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Average Annual Total Returns for the periods ended 12/31/2012 </b></p>
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<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Investment Objective
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund seeks to approximate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the Dow Jones Target 2040 Index℠.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Fees and Expenses
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">These tables are intended to help you understand the various costs and expenses you will pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment) </b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Example of Expenses
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The example below is intended to help you compare the costs of investing in the Fund with the costs of investing in other mutual funds. The example assumes a $10,000 initial investment, 5% annual total return, and that operating expenses remain the same as in the tables above. The example also assumes that the Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver shown above will only be in place for the length of the current waiver commitment. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Portfolio Turnover
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or "turns over" its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund's performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 20% of the average value of its portfolio.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Principal Investment Strategies
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">Under normal circumstances, we invest: </p>
<ul><li>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">at least 80% of the Fund's total assets in equity, fixed income and money market securities designed to approximate the holdings and weightings of the securities in the Dow Jones Target 2040 Index℠.</p>
</li></ul>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund is a gateway fund that invests in various master portfolios which in turn invest in a combination of equity, fixed income and money market securities using an asset allocation strategy designed to replicate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the Dow Jones Target 2040 Index℠. Similar to the methodology of the index, the Fund's investment strategy is to gradually reduce the Fund's potential market risk exposure over time by re-allocating the Fund's assets among these major asset classes: equity, fixed income and money market instruments. Generally, the longer the Fund's time horizon, the more of its assets are allocated to equity securities to pursue capital appreciation over the long term. As the Fund's time horizon shortens, it replaces some of its equity holdings with fixed income and money market holdings to reduce market risk and price volatility and thereby generally becomes more conservative in its asset allocation as the Fund's target year approaches and for the first 10 years after it arrives. The Fund's target year serves as a guide to the relative market risk exposure of the Fund, and your decision to invest in this Fund or another Wells Fargo Advantage Dow Jones Target Date Fund with a different target year and market risk exposure depends upon your individual risk tolerance, among other factors.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The "target year" designated in the Fund's name is the same as the year in the name of the Dow Jones Target 2040 Index℠. Although the individual goals of each investor with respect to a target year vary, an investor may intend for the target year to represent the approximate year in or around which the investor plans to begin withdrawing a portion or all of the investor's investment in the Fund and/or stop making new investments to the Fund. The Fund's goals may not align with the goals of an investor that seeks to begin to withdraw a portion or all of the investor's investment in the Fund significantly before or after the Fund's target year. In this respect, the Fund's goals may more closely align with an investor that intends to begin gradually withdrawing the value of the investor's account on or around the target year. In addition, the Fund will not have its most conservative asset allocation in the Fund's target year, which may not align with an investor's plan for withdrawing the investor's investment. The principal value of an investor's investment in the Fund is not guaranteed, and an investor may experience losses, at any time, including near, at or after the target year designated in the Fund's name. In addition, there is no guarantee that an investor's investment in the Fund will provide income at, and through the years following, the target year in the Fund's name in amounts adequate to meet the investor's goals.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">Currently, the master portfolios in which the Fund invests are the Wells Fargo Advantage Diversified Stock Portfolio, the Wells Fargo Advantage Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio, and the Wells Fargo Advantage Short-Term Investment Portfolio. The Diversified Stock Portfolio and the Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio seek to approximate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the respective equity and fixed income portions of the Dow Jones Target 2040 Index℠ by investing in the securities that comprise the sub-indexes representing the equity and fixed income asset classes, respectively, which securities may include, among others, growth and value stocks, foreign and emerging market equity investments, and securities of smaller companies, as well as debt securities, including corporate bonds, mortgage- and asset-backed securities and U.S. and foreign government obligations. The Diversified Stock Portfolio may also use derivatives, such as stock index futures in order to manage movements of the portfolio against certain indexes. The Diversified Stock Portfolio and the Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio use an optimization process, which seeks to balance the replication of index performance and security transaction costs. The Fund invests in the Short-Term Investment Portfolio to represent the cash component of the Dow Jones Target Date Indexes, but unlike the cash component of the Dow Jones Target 2040 Index℠, the Portfolio does not seek to replicate the Barclays 1-3 Month Treasury-Bill Index. This could result in potential tracking error between the performances of the Fund and the Dow Jones Target 2040 Index℠. By the time the Fund reaches its target year in 2040, its risk exposure will approach 28% of the risk of the global equity market. The Fund will not reach its lowest risk exposure of 20% of the risk of the global equity market until ten years past the Fund's target year. To measure the Fund's risk and the risk of the global equity market, we use a statistical method known as below-mean semi-variance, which quantifies portfolio risk levels by measuring only the below-average outcomes. This method is designed to provide a more useful and nuanced picture of the Fund's risk profile. As of February 28, 2013, the Dow Jones Target 2040 Index℠ included equity, fixed income and money market securities in the weights of 86%, 10% and 4%, respectively, which represent the percentage breakdown of the Fund's assets across the Diversified Stock, Diversified Fixed Income and Short-Term Investment Portfolios, respectively, as of such date, and may change over time. The Fund reserves the right to change its percentage allocation among the Portfolios as we deem necessary to meet its investment objective.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Principal Investment Risks
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">An investment in the Fund may lose money, is not a deposit of Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. or its affiliates, is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other governmental agency, and is primarily subject to the risks briefly summarized below.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Allocation Methodology Risk.</b> A Fund is subject to the risk that the allocation methodology of the Dow Jones Target Date Index will not meet an investor's goals because it will not eliminate the investment volatility that could reduce the amount of funds available for an investor to withdraw when the investor intends to begin to withdraw a portion or all of the investor's investment in the Fund or it may over-emphasize conservative investments designed to ensure capital conservation and current income, which may ultimately prevent the investor from achieving the investor's income and appreciation goals.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Counter-Party Risk.</b> A Fund may incur a loss if the other party to an investment contract, such as a derivative or a repurchase or reverse repurchase agreement, fails to fulfill its contractual obligation to the Fund.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Debt Securities Risk.</b> The issuer of a debt security may fail to pay interest or principal when due, and the value of a debt security may decline if an issuer defaults or if its credit quality deteriorates. Changes in market interest rates may reduce the value of debt securities or reduce the Fund's returns.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Derivatives Risk.</b> The use of derivatives such as futures, options and swap agreements, can lead to losses, including those magnified by leverage, particularly when derivatives are used to enhance return rather than offset risk.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Emerging Markets Risk.</b> Foreign investment risks are typically greater for securities in emerging markets, which can be more vulnerable to recessions, currency volatility, inflation and market failure.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Foreign Investment Risk.</b> Foreign investments face the potential of heightened illiquidity, greater price volatility and adverse effects of political, regulatory, tax, currency, economic or other macroeconomic developments.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Futures Risk.</b> Because the futures utilized by a Fund are standardized and exchange-traded, where the exchange serves as the ultimate counterparty for all contracts, the primary credit risk on futures contracts is the creditworthiness of the exchange itself. Futures are also subject to market risk, interest rate risk (in the case of futures contracts relating to income producing securities) and index tracking risk (in the case of stock index futures).</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Growth Style Investment Risk.</b> Growth stocks may be more expensive relative to the values of other stocks and carry potential for significant volatility and loss.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Index Tracking Risk.</b> The ability to track an index may be affected by, among other things, transaction costs and shareholder purchases and redemptions.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Issuer Risk.</b> The value of a security may decline because of adverse events or circumstances that directly relate to conditions at the issuer or any entity providing it credit or liquidity support.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Leverage Risk.</b> Leverage created by borrowing or certain investments, such as derivatives and reverse repurchase agreements, can diminish the Fund's performance and increase the volatility of the Fund's net asset value.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Liquidity Risk.</b> A security may not be able to be sold at the time desired or without adversely affecting the price.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Management Risk.</b> There is no guarantee of the Fund's performance or that the Fund will meet its objective. The market value of your investment may decline and you may suffer investment loss.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Market Risk.</b> The market price of securities owned by the Fund may rapidly or unpredictably decline due to factors affecting securities markets generally or particular industries.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Mortgage- and Asset-Backed Securities Risk.</b> Mortgage- and asset-backed securities may decline in value when defaults on the underlying mortgage or assets occur and may exhibit additional volatility in periods of changing interest rates. When interest rates decline, the prepayment of mortgages or assets underlying such securities may require the Fund to reinvest such prepaid funds at lower prevailing interest rates, resulting in reduced returns.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Multi-Style Management Risk.</b> The management of the Fund's portfolio using different investment styles can result in higher transaction costs and lower tax efficiency than other funds which adhere to a single investment style.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Regulatory Risk.</b> Changes in government regulations may adversely affect the value of a security. An insufficiently regulated industry or market might also permit inappropriate practices that adversely affect an investment.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Smaller Company Securities Risk.</b> Securities of companies with smaller market capitalizations tend to be more volatile and less liquid than larger company stocks.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>U.S. Government Obligations Risk.</b> U.S. Government obligations may be adversely affected by changes in interest rates, a default by, or decline in the credit quality of, the U.S. Government, and may not be backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. Government.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Value Style Investment Risk.</b> Value stocks may lose value and may be subject to prolonged depressed valuations.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Performance
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing changes in the Fund's performance from year to year. The Fund's average annual total returns are compared to the performance of one or more indices. Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Current month-end performance is available on the Fund's Web site at wellsfargoadvantagefunds.com.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Calendar Year Total Returns as of 12/31 each year Class R4
</b></p>
Highest Quarter: 3rd Quarter 2009
Lowest Quarter: 4th Quarter 2008
Year-to-date total return as of 3/31/2013 is +7.29%
0.2072-0.2084
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Average Annual Total Returns for the periods ended 12/31/2012 </b></p>
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<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Investment Objective
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund seeks to approximate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the Dow Jones Target 2045 Index℠.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Fees and Expenses
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">These tables are intended to help you understand the various costs and expenses you will pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment) </b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Example of Expenses
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The example below is intended to help you compare the costs of investing in the Fund with the costs of investing in other mutual funds. The example assumes a $10,000 initial investment, 5% annual total return, and that operating expenses remain the same as in the tables above. The example also assumes that the Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver shown above will only be in place for the length of the current waiver commitment. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Portfolio Turnover
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or "turns over" its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund's performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 19% of the average value of its portfolio.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Principal Investment Strategies
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">Under normal circumstances, we invest: </p>
<ul><li>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">at least 80% of the Fund's total assets in equity, fixed income and money market securities designed to approximate the holdings and weightings of the securities in the Dow Jones Target 2045 Index℠.</p>
</li></ul>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund is a gateway fund that invests in various master portfolios which in turn invest in a combination of equity, fixed income and money market securities using an asset allocation strategy designed to replicate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the Dow Jones Target 2045 Index℠. Similar to the methodology of the index, the Fund's investment strategy is to gradually reduce the Fund's potential market risk exposure over time by re-allocating the Fund's assets among these major asset classes: equity, fixed income and money market instruments. Generally, the longer the Fund's time horizon, the more of its assets are allocated to equity securities to pursue capital appreciation over the long term. As the Fund's time horizon shortens, it replaces some of its equity holdings with fixed income and money market holdings to reduce market risk and price volatility and thereby generally becomes more conservative in its asset allocation as the Fund's target year approaches and for the first 10 years after it arrives. The Fund's target year serves as a guide to the relative market risk exposure of the Fund, and your decision to invest in this Fund or another Wells Fargo Advantage Dow Jones Target Date Fund with a different target year and market risk exposure depends upon your individual risk tolerance, among other factors.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The "target year" designated in the Fund's name is the same as the year in the name of the Dow Jones Target 2045 Index℠. Although the individual goals of each investor with respect to a target year vary, an investor may intend for the target year to represent the approximate year in or around which the investor plans to begin withdrawing a portion or all of the investor's investment in the Fund and/or stop making new investments to the Fund. The Fund's goals may not align with the goals of an investor that seeks to begin to withdraw a portion or all of the investor's investment in the Fund significantly before or after the Fund's target year. In this respect, the Fund's goals may more closely align with an investor that intends to begin gradually withdrawing the value of the investor's account on or around the target year. In addition, the Fund will not have its most conservative asset allocation in the Fund's target year, which may not align with an investor's plan for withdrawing the investor's investment. The principal value of an investor's investment in the Fund is not guaranteed, and an investor may experience losses, at any time, including near, at or after the target year designated in the Fund's name. In addition, there is no guarantee that an investor's investment in the Fund will provide income at, and through the years following, the target year in the Fund's name in amounts adequate to meet the investor's goals.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">Currently, the master portfolios in which the Fund invests are the Wells Fargo Advantage Diversified Stock Portfolio, the Wells Fargo Advantage Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio, and the Wells Fargo Advantage Short-Term Investment Portfolio. The Diversified Stock Portfolio and the Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio seek to approximate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the respective equity and fixed income portions of the Dow Jones Target 2045 Index℠ by investing in the securities that comprise the sub-indexes representing the equity and fixed income asset classes, respectively, which securities may include, among others, growth and value stocks, foreign and emerging market equity investments, and securities of smaller companies, as well as debt securities, including corporate bonds, mortgage- and asset-backed securities and U.S. and foreign government obligations. The Diversified Stock Portfolio may also use derivatives, such as stock index futures in order to manage movements of the portfolio against certain indexes. The Diversified Stock Portfolio and the Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio use an optimization process, which seeks to balance the replication of index performance and security transaction costs. The Fund invests in the Short-Term Investment Portfolio to represent the cash component of the Dow Jones Target Date Indexes, but unlike the cash component of the Dow Jones Target 2045 Index℠, the Portfolio does not seek to replicate the Barclays 1-3 Month Treasury-Bill Index. This could result in potential tracking error between the performances of the Fund and the Dow Jones Target 2045 Index℠. By the time the Fund reaches its target year in 2045, its risk exposure will approach 28% of the risk of the global equity market. The Fund will not reach its lowest risk exposure of 20% of the risk of the global equity market until ten years past the Fund's target year. To measure the Fund's risk and the risk of the global equity market, we use a statistical method known as below-mean semi-variance, which quantifies portfolio risk levels by measuring only the below-average outcomes. This method is designed to provide a more useful and nuanced picture of the Fund's risk profile. As of February 28, 2013, the Dow Jones Target 2045 Index℠ included equity, fixed income and money market securities in the weights of 90%, 6% and 4%, respectively, which represent the percentage breakdown of the Fund's assets across the Diversified Stock, Diversified Fixed Income and Short-Term Investment Portfolios, respectively, as of such date, and may change over time. The Fund reserves the right to change its percentage allocation among the Portfolios as we deem necessary to meet its investment objective.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Principal Investment Risks
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">An investment in the Fund may lose money, is not a deposit of Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. or its affiliates, is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other governmental agency, and is primarily subject to the risks briefly summarized below.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Allocation Methodology Risk.</b> A Fund is subject to the risk that the allocation methodology of the Dow Jones Target Date Index will not meet an investor's goals because it will not eliminate the investment volatility that could reduce the amount of funds available for an investor to withdraw when the investor intends to begin to withdraw a portion or all of the investor's investment in the Fund or it may over-emphasize conservative investments designed to ensure capital conservation and current income, which may ultimately prevent the investor from achieving the investor's income and appreciation goals.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Counter-Party Risk.</b> A Fund may incur a loss if the other party to an investment contract, such as a derivative or a repurchase or reverse repurchase agreement, fails to fulfill its contractual obligation to the Fund.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Debt Securities Risk.</b> The issuer of a debt security may fail to pay interest or principal when due, and the value of a debt security may decline if an issuer defaults or if its credit quality deteriorates. Changes in market interest rates may reduce the value of debt securities or reduce the Fund's returns.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Derivatives Risk.</b> The use of derivatives such as futures, options and swap agreements, can lead to losses, including those magnified by leverage, particularly when derivatives are used to enhance return rather than offset risk.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Emerging Markets Risk.</b> Foreign investment risks are typically greater for securities in emerging markets, which can be more vulnerable to recessions, currency volatility, inflation and market failure.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Foreign Investment Risk.</b> Foreign investments face the potential of heightened illiquidity, greater price volatility and adverse effects of political, regulatory, tax, currency, economic or other macroeconomic developments.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Futures Risk.</b> Because the futures utilized by a Fund are standardized and exchange-traded, where the exchange serves as the ultimate counterparty for all contracts, the primary credit risk on futures contracts is the creditworthiness of the exchange itself. Futures are also subject to market risk, interest rate risk (in the case of futures contracts relating to income producing securities) and index tracking risk (in the case of stock index futures).</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Growth Style Investment Risk.</b> Growth stocks may be more expensive relative to the values of other stocks and carry potential for significant volatility and loss.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Index Tracking Risk.</b> The ability to track an index may be affected by, among other things, transaction costs and shareholder purchases and redemptions.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Issuer Risk.</b> The value of a security may decline because of adverse events or circumstances that directly relate to conditions at the issuer or any entity providing it credit or liquidity support.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Leverage Risk.</b> Leverage created by borrowing or certain investments, such as derivatives and reverse repurchase agreements, can diminish the Fund's performance and increase the volatility of the Fund's net asset value.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Liquidity Risk.</b> A security may not be able to be sold at the time desired or without adversely affecting the price.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Management Risk.</b> There is no guarantee of the Fund's performance or that the Fund will meet its objective. The market value of your investment may decline and you may suffer investment loss.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Market Risk.</b> The market price of securities owned by the Fund may rapidly or unpredictably decline due to factors affecting securities markets generally or particular industries.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Mortgage- and Asset-Backed Securities Risk.</b> Mortgage- and asset-backed securities may decline in value when defaults on the underlying mortgage or assets occur and may exhibit additional volatility in periods of changing interest rates. When interest rates decline, the prepayment of mortgages or assets underlying such securities may require the Fund to reinvest such prepaid funds at lower prevailing interest rates, resulting in reduced returns.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Multi-Style Management Risk.</b> The management of the Fund's portfolio using different investment styles can result in higher transaction costs and lower tax efficiency than other funds which adhere to a single investment style.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Regulatory Risk.</b> Changes in government regulations may adversely affect the value of a security. An insufficiently regulated industry or market might also permit inappropriate practices that adversely affect an investment.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Smaller Company Securities Risk.</b> Securities of companies with smaller market capitalizations tend to be more volatile and less liquid than larger company stocks.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>U.S. Government Obligations Risk.</b> U.S. Government obligations may be adversely affected by changes in interest rates, a default by, or decline in the credit quality of, the U.S. Government, and may not be backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. Government.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Value Style Investment Risk.</b> Value stocks may lose value and may be subject to prolonged depressed valuations.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Performance
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing changes in the Fund's performance from year to year. The Fund's average annual total returns are compared to the performance of one or more indices. Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Current month-end performance is available on the Fund's Web site at wellsfargoadvantagefunds.com.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Calendar Year Total Returns as of 12/31 each year Class R4
</b></p>
Highest Quarter: 2nd Quarter 2009
Lowest Quarter: 4th Quarter 2008
Year-to-date total return as of 3/31/2013 is +7.66%
0.2064-0.2041
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Average Annual Total Returns for the periods ended 12/31/2012 </b></p>
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<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Investment Objective
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund seeks to approximate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the Dow Jones Target 2050 Index℠.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Fees and Expenses
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">These tables are intended to help you understand the various costs and expenses you will pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment) </b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Example of Expenses
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The example below is intended to help you compare the costs of investing in the Fund with the costs of investing in other mutual funds. The example assumes a $10,000 initial investment, 5% annual total return, and that operating expenses remain the same as in the tables above. The example also assumes that the Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver shown above will only be in place for the length of the current waiver commitment. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Portfolio Turnover
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or "turns over" its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund's performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 19% of the average value of its portfolio.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Principal Investment Strategies
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">Under normal circumstances, we invest: </p>
<ul><li>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">at least 80% of the Fund's total assets in equity, fixed income and money market securities designed to approximate the holdings and weightings of the securities in the Dow Jones Target 2050 Index℠.</p>
</li></ul>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund is a gateway fund that invests in various master portfolios which in turn invest in a combination of equity, fixed income and money market securities using an asset allocation strategy designed to replicate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the Dow Jones Target 2050 Index℠. Similar to the methodology of the index, the Fund's investment strategy is to gradually reduce the Fund's potential market risk exposure over time by re-allocating the Fund's assets among these major asset classes: equity, fixed income and money market instruments. Generally, the longer the Fund's time horizon, the more of its assets are allocated to equity securities to pursue capital appreciation over the long term. As the Fund's time horizon shortens, it replaces some of its equity holdings with fixed income and money market holdings to reduce market risk and price volatility and thereby generally becomes more conservative in its asset allocation as the Fund's target year approaches and for the first 10 years after it arrives. The Fund's target year serves as a guide to the relative market risk exposure of the Fund, and your decision to invest in this Fund or another Wells Fargo Advantage Dow Jones Target Date Fund with a different target year and market risk exposure depends upon your individual risk tolerance, among other factors.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The "target year" designated in the Fund's name is the same as the year in the name of the Dow Jones Target 2050 Index℠. Although the individual goals of each investor with respect to a target year vary, an investor may intend for the target year to represent the approximate year in or around which the investor plans to begin withdrawing a portion or all of the investor's investment in the Fund and/or stop making new investments to the Fund. The Fund's goals may not align with the goals of an investor that seeks to begin to withdraw a portion or all of the investor's investment in the Fund significantly before or after the Fund's target year. In this respect, the Fund's goals may more closely align with an investor that intends to begin gradually withdrawing the value of the investor's account on or around the target year. In addition, the Fund will not have its most conservative asset allocation in the Fund's target year, which may not align with an investor's plan for withdrawing the investor's investment. The principal value of an investor's investment in the Fund is not guaranteed, and an investor may experience losses, at any time, including near, at or after the target year designated in the Fund's name. In addition, there is no guarantee that an investor's investment in the Fund will provide income at, and through the years following, the target year in the Fund's name in amounts adequate to meet the investor's goals.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">Currently, the master portfolios in which the Fund invests are the Wells Fargo Advantage Diversified Stock Portfolio, the Wells Fargo Advantage Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio, and the Wells Fargo Advantage Short-Term Investment Portfolio. The Diversified Stock Portfolio and the Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio seek to approximate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the respective equity and fixed income portions of the Dow Jones Target 2050 Index℠ by investing in the securities that comprise the sub-indexes representing the equity and fixed income asset classes, respectively, which securities may include, among others, growth and value stocks, foreign and emerging market equity investments, and securities of smaller companies, as well as debt securities, including corporate bonds, mortgage- and asset-backed securities and U.S. and foreign government obligations. The Diversified Stock Portfolio may also use derivatives, such as stock index futures in order to manage movements of the portfolio against certain indexes. The Diversified Stock Portfolio and the Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio use an optimization process, which seeks to balance the replication of index performance and security transaction costs. The Fund invests in the Short-Term Investment Portfolio to represent the cash component of the Dow Jones Target Date Indexes, but unlike the cash component of the Dow Jones Target 2050 Index℠, the Portfolio does not seek to replicate the Barclays 1-3 Month Treasury-Bill Index. This could result in potential tracking error between the performances of the Fund and the Dow Jones Target 2050 Index℠. By the time the Fund reaches its target year in 2050, its risk exposure will approach 28% of the risk of the global equity market. The Fund will not reach its lowest risk exposure of 20% of the risk of the global equity market until ten years past the Fund's target year. To measure the Fund's risk and the risk of the global equity market, we use a statistical method known as below-mean semi-variance, which quantifies portfolio risk levels by measuring only the below-average outcomes. This method is designed to provide a more useful and nuanced picture of the Fund's risk profile. As of February 28, 2013, the Dow Jones Target 2050 Index℠ included equity, fixed income and money market securities in the weights of 90%, 6% and 4%, respectively, which represent the percentage breakdown of the Fund's assets across the Diversified Stock, Diversified Fixed Income and Short-Term Investment Portfolios, respectively, as of such date, and may change over time. The Fund reserves the right to change its percentage allocation among the Portfolios as we deem necessary to meet its investment objective.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Principal Investment Risks
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">An investment in the Fund may lose money, is not a deposit of Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. or its affiliates, is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other governmental agency, and is primarily subject to the risks briefly summarized below.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Allocation Methodology Risk.</b> A Fund is subject to the risk that the allocation methodology of the Dow Jones Target Date Index will not meet an investor's goals because it will not eliminate the investment volatility that could reduce the amount of funds available for an investor to withdraw when the investor intends to begin to withdraw a portion or all of the investor's investment in the Fund or it may over-emphasize conservative investments designed to ensure capital conservation and current income, which may ultimately prevent the investor from achieving the investor's income and appreciation goals.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Counter-Party Risk.</b> A Fund may incur a loss if the other party to an investment contract, such as a derivative or a repurchase or reverse repurchase agreement, fails to fulfill its contractual obligation to the Fund.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Debt Securities Risk.</b> The issuer of a debt security may fail to pay interest or principal when due, and the value of a debt security may decline if an issuer defaults or if its credit quality deteriorates. Changes in market interest rates may reduce the value of debt securities or reduce the Fund's returns.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Derivatives Risk.</b> The use of derivatives such as futures, options and swap agreements, can lead to losses, including those magnified by leverage, particularly when derivatives are used to enhance return rather than offset risk.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Emerging Markets Risk.</b> Foreign investment risks are typically greater for securities in emerging markets, which can be more vulnerable to recessions, currency volatility, inflation and market failure.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Foreign Investment Risk.</b> Foreign investments face the potential of heightened illiquidity, greater price volatility and adverse effects of political, regulatory, tax, currency, economic or other macroeconomic developments.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Futures Risk.</b> Because the futures utilized by a Fund are standardized and exchange-traded, where the exchange serves as the ultimate counterparty for all contracts, the primary credit risk on futures contracts is the creditworthiness of the exchange itself. Futures are also subject to market risk, interest rate risk (in the case of futures contracts relating to income producing securities) and index tracking risk (in the case of stock index futures).</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Growth Style Investment Risk.</b> Growth stocks may be more expensive relative to the values of other stocks and carry potential for significant volatility and loss.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Index Tracking Risk.</b> The ability to track an index may be affected by, among other things, transaction costs and shareholder purchases and redemptions.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Issuer Risk.</b> The value of a security may decline because of adverse events or circumstances that directly relate to conditions at the issuer or any entity providing it credit or liquidity support.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Leverage Risk.</b> Leverage created by borrowing or certain investments, such as derivatives and reverse repurchase agreements, can diminish the Fund's performance and increase the volatility of the Fund's net asset value.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Liquidity Risk.</b> A security may not be able to be sold at the time desired or without adversely affecting the price.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Management Risk.</b> There is no guarantee of the Fund's performance or that the Fund will meet its objective. The market value of your investment may decline and you may suffer investment loss.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Market Risk.</b> The market price of securities owned by the Fund may rapidly or unpredictably decline due to factors affecting securities markets generally or particular industries.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Mortgage- and Asset-Backed Securities Risk.</b> Mortgage- and asset-backed securities may decline in value when defaults on the underlying mortgage or assets occur and may exhibit additional volatility in periods of changing interest rates. When interest rates decline, the prepayment of mortgages or assets underlying such securities may require the Fund to reinvest such prepaid funds at lower prevailing interest rates, resulting in reduced returns.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Multi-Style Management Risk.</b> The management of the Fund's portfolio using different investment styles can result in higher transaction costs and lower tax efficiency than other funds which adhere to a single investment style.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Regulatory Risk.</b> Changes in government regulations may adversely affect the value of a security. An insufficiently regulated industry or market might also permit inappropriate practices that adversely affect an investment.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Smaller Company Securities Risk.</b> Securities of companies with smaller market capitalizations tend to be more volatile and less liquid than larger company stocks.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>U.S. Government Obligations Risk.</b> U.S. Government obligations may be adversely affected by changes in interest rates, a default by, or decline in the credit quality of, the U.S. Government, and may not be backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. Government.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Value Style Investment Risk.</b> Value stocks may lose value and may be subject to prolonged depressed valuations.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Performance
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing changes in the Fund's performance from year to year. The Fund's average annual total returns are compared to the performance of one or more indices. Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Current month-end performance is available on the Fund's Web site at wellsfargoadvantagefunds.com.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Calendar Year Total Returns as of 12/31 each year Class R4
</b></p>
Highest Quarter: 2nd Quarter 2009
Lowest Quarter: 4th Quarter 2008
Year-to-date total return as of 3/31/2013 is +7.73%
0.2091-0.2062
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Average Annual Total Returns for the periods ended 12/31/2012 </b></p>
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<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Investment Objective
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund seeks to approximate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the Dow Jones Target Today Index℠.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Fees and Expenses
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">These tables are intended to help you understand the various costs and expenses you will pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment) </b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Example of Expenses
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The example below is intended to help you compare the costs of investing in the Fund with the costs of investing in other mutual funds. The example assumes a $10,000 initial investment, 5% annual total return, and that operating expenses remain the same as in the tables above. The example also assumes that the Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver shown above will only be in place for the length of the current waiver commitment. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Portfolio Turnover
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or "turns over" its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund's performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 39% of the average value of its portfolio.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Principal Investment Strategies
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">Under normal circumstances, we invest: </p>
<ul><li>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">at least 80% of the Fund's total assets in equity, fixed income and money market securities designed to approximate the holdings and weightings of the securities in the Dow Jones Target Today Index℠.</p>
</li></ul>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund is a gateway fund that invests in various master portfolios which in turn invest in a combination of equity, fixed income and money market securities using an asset allocation strategy designed to replicate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the Dow Jones Target Today Index℠. Similar to the methodology of the index, the Fund's investment strategy is to maintain a relatively fixed level of potential market risk exposure over time by re-allocating the Fund's assets among these major asset classes: equity, fixed income and money market instruments. The Wells Fargo Advantage Dow Jones Target Today Fund is the most conservative Fund within the Wells Fargo Advantage Dow Jones Target Date Funds series. Within the series, each Fund's target year serves as a guide to the relative market risk exposure of the Fund's allocation of assets among equity, fixed income and money market instruments asset classes, and your decision to invest in this or another Wells Fargo Advantage Dow Jones Target Date Fund with a different target year and market risk exposure depends upon your individual risk tolerance, among other factors.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The "Today" designation in the Fund's name corresponds to the naming convention of the Dow Jones Target Today Index℠, an index designed to represent the targeted level of relative market risk exposure 10 years past a dated Fund's targeted year. The principal value of an investor's investment in the Fund is not guaranteed, and an investor may experience losses, at any time. In addition, there is no guarantee that an investor's investment in the Fund will provide income adequate to meet the investor's goals.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">Currently, the master portfolios in which the Fund invests are the Wells Fargo Advantage Diversified Stock Portfolio, the Wells Fargo Advantage Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio, and the Wells Fargo Advantage Short-Term Investment Portfolio. The Diversified Stock Portfolio and the Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio seek to approximate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the respective equity and fixed income portions of the Dow Jones Target Today Index℠ by investing in the securities that comprise the sub-indexes representing the equity and fixed income asset classes, respectively, which securities may include, among others, growth and value stocks, foreign and emerging market equity investments, and securities of smaller companies, as well as debt securities, including corporate bonds, mortgage- and asset-backed securities and U.S. and foreign government obligations. The Diversified Stock Portfolio may also use derivatives, such as stock index futures in order to manage movements of the portfolio against certain indexes. The Diversified Stock Portfolio and the Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio use an optimization process, which seeks to balance the replication of index performance and security transaction costs. The Fund invests in the Short-Term Investment Portfolio to represent the cash component of the Dow Jones Target Date Indexes, but unlike the cash component of the Dow Jones Target Today Index℠, the Portfolio does not seek to replicate the Barclays 1-3 Month Treasury-Bill Index. This could result in potential tracking error between the performances of the Fund and the Dow Jones Target Today Index℠. As of February 28, 2013, the Dow Jones Target Today Index℠ included equity, fixed income and money market securities in the weights of 15%, 80% and 5%, respectively, which represent the percentage breakdown of the Fund's assets across the Diversified Stock, Diversified Fixed Income and Short-Term Investment Portfolios, respectively, as of such date, and may change over time. The Fund reserves the right to change its percentage allocation among the Portfolios as we deem necessary to meet its investment objective.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Principal Investment Risks
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">An investment in the Fund may lose money, is not a deposit of Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. or its affiliates, is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other governmental agency, and is primarily subject to the risks briefly summarized below.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Allocation Methodology Risk.</b> A Fund is subject to the risk that the allocation methodology of the Dow Jones Target Date Index will not meet an investor's goals because it will not eliminate the investment volatility that could reduce the amount of funds available for an investor to withdraw when the investor intends to begin to withdraw a portion or all of the investor's investment in the Fund or it may over-emphasize conservative investments designed to ensure capital conservation and current income, which may ultimately prevent the investor from achieving the investor's income and appreciation goals.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Counter-Party Risk.</b> A Fund may incur a loss if the other party to an investment contract, such as a derivative or a repurchase or reverse repurchase agreement, fails to fulfill its contractual obligation to the Fund.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Debt Securities Risk.</b> The issuer of a debt security may fail to pay interest or principal when due, and the value of a debt security may decline if an issuer defaults or if its credit quality deteriorates. Changes in market interest rates may reduce the value of debt securities or reduce the Fund's returns.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Derivatives Risk.</b> The use of derivatives such as futures, options and swap agreements, can lead to losses, including those magnified by leverage, particularly when derivatives are used to enhance return rather than offset risk.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Emerging Markets Risk.</b> Foreign investment risks are typically greater for securities in emerging markets, which can be more vulnerable to recessions, currency volatility, inflation and market failure.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Foreign Investment Risk.</b> Foreign investments face the potential of heightened illiquidity, greater price volatility and adverse effects of political, regulatory, tax, currency, economic or other macroeconomic developments.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Futures Risk.</b> Because the futures utilized by a Fund are standardized and exchange-traded, where the exchange serves as the ultimate counterparty for all contracts, the primary credit risk on futures contracts is the creditworthiness of the exchange itself. Futures are also subject to market risk, interest rate risk (in the case of futures contracts relating to income producing securities) and index tracking risk (in the case of stock index futures).</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Growth Style Investment Risk.</b> Growth stocks may be more expensive relative to the values of other stocks and carry potential for significant volatility and loss.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Index Tracking Risk.</b> The ability to track an index may be affected by, among other things, transaction costs and shareholder purchases and redemptions.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Issuer Risk.</b> The value of a security may decline because of adverse events or circumstances that directly relate to conditions at the issuer or any entity providing it credit or liquidity support.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Leverage Risk.</b> Leverage created by borrowing or certain investments, such as derivatives and reverse repurchase agreements, can diminish the Fund's performance and increase the volatility of the Fund's net asset value.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Liquidity Risk.</b> A security may not be able to be sold at the time desired or without adversely affecting the price.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Management Risk.</b> There is no guarantee of the Fund's performance or that the Fund will meet its objective. The market value of your investment may decline and you may suffer investment loss.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Market Risk.</b> The market price of securities owned by the Fund may rapidly or unpredictably decline due to factors affecting securities markets generally or particular industries.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Mortgage- and Asset-Backed Securities Risk.</b> Mortgage- and asset-backed securities may decline in value when defaults on the underlying mortgage or assets occur and may exhibit additional volatility in periods of changing interest rates. When interest rates decline, the prepayment of mortgages or assets underlying such securities may require the Fund to reinvest such prepaid funds at lower prevailing interest rates, resulting in reduced returns.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Multi-Style Management Risk.</b> The management of the Fund's portfolio using different investment styles can result in higher transaction costs and lower tax efficiency than other funds which adhere to a single investment style.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Regulatory Risk.</b> Changes in government regulations may adversely affect the value of a security. An insufficiently regulated industry or market might also permit inappropriate practices that adversely affect an investment.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Smaller Company Securities Risk.</b> Securities of companies with smaller market capitalizations tend to be more volatile and less liquid than larger company stocks.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>U.S. Government Obligations Risk.</b> U.S. Government obligations may be adversely affected by changes in interest rates, a default by, or decline in the credit quality of, the U.S. Government, and may not be backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. Government.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Value Style Investment Risk.</b> Value stocks may lose value and may be subject to prolonged depressed valuations.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Performance
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing changes in the Fund's performance from year to year. The Fund's average annual total returns are compared to the performance of one or more indices. Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Current month-end performance is available on the Fund's Web site at wellsfargoadvantagefunds.com.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Calendar Year Total Returns as of 12/31 each year Class R4
</b></p>
Highest Quarter: 2nd Quarter 2003
Lowest Quarter: 3rd Quarter 2002
Year-to-date total return as of 3/31/2013 is +0.36%
0.0721-0.0436
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Average Annual Total Returns for the periods ended 12/31/2012 </b></p>
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<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Investment Objective
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund seeks to approximate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the Dow Jones Target 2055 Index℠.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Fees and Expenses
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">These tables are intended to help you understand the various costs and expenses you will pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment) </b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Example of Expenses
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The example below is intended to help you compare the costs of investing in the Fund with the costs of investing in other mutual funds. The example assumes a $10,000 initial investment, 5% annual total return, and that operating expenses remain the same as in the tables above. The example also assumes that the Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver shown above will only be in place for the length of the current waiver commitment. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Portfolio Turnover
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or "turns over" its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund's performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 19% of the average value of its portfolio.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Principal Investment Strategies
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">Under normal circumstances, we invest: </p>
<ul><li>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">at least 80% of the Fund's total assets in equity, fixed income and money market securities designed to approximate the holdings and weightings of the securities in the Dow Jones Target 2055 Index℠.</p>
</li></ul>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund is a gateway fund that invests in various master portfolios which in turn invest in a combination of equity, fixed income and money market securities using an asset allocation strategy designed to replicate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the Dow Jones Target 2055 Index℠. Similar to the methodology of the index, the Fund's investment strategy is to gradually reduce the Fund's potential market risk exposure over time by re-allocating the Fund's assets among these major asset classes: equity, fixed income and money market instruments. Generally, the longer the Fund's time horizon, the more of its assets are allocated to equity securities to pursue capital appreciation over the long term. As the Fund's time horizon shortens, it replaces some of its equity holdings with fixed income and money market holdings to reduce market risk and price volatility and thereby generally becomes more conservative in its asset allocation as the Fund's target year approaches and for the first 10 years after it arrives. The Fund's target year serves as a guide to the relative market risk exposure of the Fund, and your decision to invest in this Fund or another Wells Fargo Advantage Dow Jones Target Date Fund with a different target year and market risk exposure depends upon your individual risk tolerance, among other factors.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The "target year" designated in the Fund's name is the same as the year in the name of the Dow Jones Target 2055 Index℠. Although the individual goals of each investor with respect to a target year vary, an investor may intend for the target year to represent the approximate year in or around which the investor plans to begin withdrawing a portion or all of the investor's investment in the Fund and/or stop making new investments to the Fund. The Fund's goals may not align with the goals of an investor that seeks to begin to withdraw a portion or all of the investor's investment in the Fund significantly before or after the Fund's target year. In this respect, the Fund's goals may more closely align with an investor that intends to begin gradually withdrawing the value of the investor's account on or around the target year. In addition, the Fund will not have its most conservative asset allocation in the Fund's target year, which may not align with an investor's plan for withdrawing the investor's investment. The principal value of an investor's investment in the Fund is not guaranteed, and an investor may experience losses, at any time, including near, at or after the target year designated in the Fund's name. In addition, there is no guarantee that an investor's investment in the Fund will provide income at, and through the years following, the target year in the Fund's name in amounts adequate to meet the investor's goals.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">Currently, the master portfolios in which the Fund invests are the Wells Fargo Advantage Diversified Stock Portfolio, the Wells Fargo Advantage Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio, and the Wells Fargo Advantage Short-Term Investment Portfolio. The Diversified Stock Portfolio and the Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio seek to approximate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the respective equity and fixed income portions of the Dow Jones Target 2055 Index℠ by investing in the securities that comprise the sub-indexes representing the equity and fixed income asset classes, respectively, which securities may include, among others, growth and value stocks, foreign and emerging market equity investments, and securities of smaller companies, as well as debt securities, including corporate bonds, mortgage- and asset-backed securities and U.S. and foreign government obligations. The Diversified Stock Portfolio may also use derivatives, such as stock index futures in order to manage movements of the portfolio against certain indexes. The Diversified Stock Portfolio and the Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio use an optimization process, which seeks to balance the replication of index performance and security transaction costs. The Fund invests in the Short-Term Investment Portfolio to represent the cash component of the Dow Jones Target Date Indexes, but unlike the cash component of the Dow Jones Target 2055 Index℠, the Portfolio does not seek to replicate the Barclays 1-3 Month Treasury-Bill Index. This could result in potential tracking error between the performances of the Fund and the Dow Jones Target 2055 Index℠. By the time the Fund reaches its target year in 2055, its risk exposure will approach 28% of the risk of the global equity market. The Fund will not reach its lowest risk exposure of 20% of the risk of the global equity market until ten years past the Fund's target year. To measure the Fund's risk and the risk of the global equity market, we use a statistical method known as below-mean semi-variance, which quantifies portfolio risk levels by measuring only the below-average outcomes. This method is designed to provide a more useful and nuanced picture of the Fund's risk profile. As of February 28, 2013, the Dow Jones Target 2055 Index℠ included equity, fixed income and money market securities in the weights of 90%, 6% and 4%, respectively, which represent the percentage breakdown of the Fund's assets across the Diversified Stock, Diversified Fixed Income and Short-Term Investment Portfolios, respectively, as of such date, and may change over time. The Fund reserves the right to change its percentage allocation among the Portfolios as we deem necessary to meet its investment objective.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Principal Investment Risks
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">An investment in the Fund may lose money, is not a deposit of Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. or its affiliates, is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other governmental agency, and is primarily subject to the risks briefly summarized below.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Allocation Methodology Risk.</b> A Fund is subject to the risk that the allocation methodology of the Dow Jones Target Date Index will not meet an investor's goals because it will not eliminate the investment volatility that could reduce the amount of funds available for an investor to withdraw when the investor intends to begin to withdraw a portion or all of the investor's investment in the Fund or it may over-emphasize conservative investments designed to ensure capital conservation and current income, which may ultimately prevent the investor from achieving the investor's income and appreciation goals.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Counter-Party Risk.</b> A Fund may incur a loss if the other party to an investment contract, such as a derivative or a repurchase or reverse repurchase agreement, fails to fulfill its contractual obligation to the Fund.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Debt Securities Risk.</b> The issuer of a debt security may fail to pay interest or principal when due, and the value of a debt security may decline if an issuer defaults or if its credit quality deteriorates. Changes in market interest rates may reduce the value of debt securities or reduce the Fund's returns.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Derivatives Risk.</b> The use of derivatives such as futures, options and swap agreements, can lead to losses, including those magnified by leverage, particularly when derivatives are used to enhance return rather than offset risk.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Emerging Markets Risk.</b> Foreign investment risks are typically greater for securities in emerging markets, which can be more vulnerable to recessions, currency volatility, inflation and market failure.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Foreign Investment Risk.</b> Foreign investments face the potential of heightened illiquidity, greater price volatility and adverse effects of political, regulatory, tax, currency, economic or other macroeconomic developments.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Futures Risk.</b> Because the futures utilized by a Fund are standardized and exchange-traded, where the exchange serves as the ultimate counterparty for all contracts, the primary credit risk on futures contracts is the creditworthiness of the exchange itself. Futures are also subject to market risk, interest rate risk (in the case of futures contracts relating to income producing securities) and index tracking risk (in the case of stock index futures).</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Growth Style Investment Risk.</b> Growth stocks may be more expensive relative to the values of other stocks and carry potential for significant volatility and loss.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Index Tracking Risk.</b> The ability to track an index may be affected by, among other things, transaction costs and shareholder purchases and redemptions.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Issuer Risk.</b> The value of a security may decline because of adverse events or circumstances that directly relate to conditions at the issuer or any entity providing it credit or liquidity support.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Leverage Risk.</b> Leverage created by borrowing or certain investments, such as derivatives and reverse repurchase agreements, can diminish the Fund's performance and increase the volatility of the Fund's net asset value.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Liquidity Risk.</b> A security may not be able to be sold at the time desired or without adversely affecting the price.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Management Risk.</b> There is no guarantee of the Fund's performance or that the Fund will meet its objective. The market value of your investment may decline and you may suffer investment loss.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Market Risk.</b> The market price of securities owned by the Fund may rapidly or unpredictably decline due to factors affecting securities markets generally or particular industries.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Mortgage- and Asset-Backed Securities Risk.</b> Mortgage- and asset-backed securities may decline in value when defaults on the underlying mortgage or assets occur and may exhibit additional volatility in periods of changing interest rates. When interest rates decline, the prepayment of mortgages or assets underlying such securities may require the Fund to reinvest such prepaid funds at lower prevailing interest rates, resulting in reduced returns.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Multi-Style Management Risk.</b> The management of the Fund's portfolio using different investment styles can result in higher transaction costs and lower tax efficiency than other funds which adhere to a single investment style.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Regulatory Risk.</b> Changes in government regulations may adversely affect the value of a security. An insufficiently regulated industry or market might also permit inappropriate practices that adversely affect an investment.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Smaller Company Securities Risk.</b> Securities of companies with smaller market capitalizations tend to be more volatile and less liquid than larger company stocks.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>U.S. Government Obligations Risk.</b> U.S. Government obligations may be adversely affected by changes in interest rates, a default by, or decline in the credit quality of, the U.S. Government, and may not be backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. Government.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Value Style Investment Risk.</b> Value stocks may lose value and may be subject to prolonged depressed valuations.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Performance
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing changes in the Fund's performance from year to year. The Fund's average annual total returns are compared to the performance of one or more indices. Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Current month-end performance is available on the Fund's Web site at wellsfargoadvantagefunds.com.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Calendar Year Total Returns as of 12/31 each year Class R4
</b></p>
Highest Quarter: 1st Quarter 2012
Lowest Quarter: 2nd Quarter 2012
Year-to-date total return as of 3/31/2013 is +7.64%
0.1123-0.0439
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Average Annual Total Returns for the periods ended 12/31/2012 </b></p>
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<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Investment Objective
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund seeks to approximate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the Dow Jones Target 2010 Index℠.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Fees and Expenses
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">These tables are intended to help you understand the various costs and expenses you will pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment) </b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Example of Expenses
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The example below is intended to help you compare the costs of investing in the Fund with the costs of investing in other mutual funds. The example assumes a $10,000 initial investment, 5% annual total return, and that operating expenses remain the same as in the tables above. The example also assumes that the Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver shown above will only be in place for the length of the current waiver commitment. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Portfolio Turnover
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or "turns over" its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund's performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 37% of the average value of its portfolio.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Principal Investment Strategies
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">Under normal circumstances, we invest:</p>
<ul><li>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">at least 80% of the Fund's total assets in equity, fixed income and money market securities designed to approximate the holdings and weightings of the securities in the Dow Jones Target 2010 Index℠.</p>
</li></ul>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund is a gateway fund that invests in various master portfolios which in turn invest in a combination of equity, fixed income and money market securities using an asset allocation strategy designed to replicate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the Dow Jones Target 2010 Index℠. Similar to the methodology of the index, the Fund's investment strategy is to gradually reduce the Fund's potential market risk exposure over time by re-allocating the Fund's assets among these major asset classes: equity, fixed income and money market instruments. Generally, the longer the Fund's time horizon, the more of its assets are allocated to equity securities to pursue capital appreciation over the long term. As the Fund's time horizon shortens, it replaces some of its equity holdings with fixed income and money market holdings to reduce market risk and price volatility and thereby generally becomes more conservative in its asset allocation as the Fund's target year approaches and for the first 10 years after it arrives. The Fund's target year serves as a guide to the relative market risk exposure of the Fund, and your decision to invest in this Fund or another Wells Fargo Advantage Dow Jones Target Date Fund with a different target year and market risk exposure depends upon your individual risk tolerance, among other factors.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The "target year" designated in the Fund's name is the same as the year in the name of the Dow Jones Target 2010 Index℠. Although the individual goals of each investor with respect to a target year vary, an investor may intend for the target year to represent the approximate year in or around which the investor plans to begin withdrawing a portion or all of the investor's investment in the Fund and/or stop making new investments to the Fund. The Fund's goals may not align with the goals of an investor that seeks to begin to withdraw a portion or all of the investor's investment in the Fund significantly before or after the Fund's target year. In this respect, the Fund's goals may more closely align with an investor that intends to begin gradually withdrawing the value of the investor's account on or around the target year. In addition, the Fund will not have its most conservative asset allocation in the Fund's target year, which may not align with an investor's plan for withdrawing the investor's investment. The principal value of an investor's investment in the Fund is not guaranteed, and an investor may experience losses, at any time, including near, at or after the target year designated in the Fund's name. In addition, there is no guarantee that an investor's investment in the Fund will provide income at, and through the years following, the target year in the Fund's name in amounts adequate to meet the investor's goals.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">Currently, the master portfolios in which the Fund invests are the Wells Fargo Advantage Diversified Stock Portfolio, the Wells Fargo Advantage Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio, and the Wells Fargo Advantage Short-Term Investment Portfolio. The Diversified Stock Portfolio and the Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio seek to approximate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the respective equity and fixed income portions of the Dow Jones Target 2010 Index℠ by investing in the securities that comprise the sub-indexes representing the equity and fixed income asset classes, respectively, which securities may include, among others, growth and value stocks, foreign and emerging market equity investments, and securities of smaller companies, as well as debt securities, including corporate bonds, mortgage- and asset-backed securities and U.S. and foreign government obligations. The Diversified Stock Portfolio may also use derivatives, such as stock index futures in order to manage movements of the portfolio against certain indexes. The Diversified Stock Portfolio and the Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio use an optimization process, which seeks to balance the replication of index performance and security transaction costs. The Fund invests in the Short-Term Investment Portfolio to represent the cash component of the Dow Jones Target Date Indexes, but unlike the cash component of the Dow Jones Target 2010 Index℠, the Portfolio does not seek to replicate the Barclays 1-3 Month Treasury-Bill Index. This could result in potential tracking error between the performances of the Fund and the Dow Jones Target 2010 Index℠. As the Fund has now reached its target year, its risk exposure approaches 27% of the risk of the global equity market. The Fund will not reach its lowest risk exposure of 20% of the risk of the global equity market until ten years past the Fund's target year. To measure the Fund's risk and the risk of the global equity market, we use a statistical method known as below-mean semi-variance, which quantifies portfolio risk levels by measuring only the below-average outcomes. This method is designed to provide a more useful and nuanced picture of the Fund's risk profile. As of February 28, 2013, the Dow Jones Target 2010 Index℠ included equity, fixed income and money market securities in the weights of 23%, 73% and 4%, respectively, which represent the percentage breakdown of the Fund's assets across the Diversified Stock, Diversified Fixed Income and Short-Term Investment Portfolios, respectively, as of such date, and may change over time. The Fund reserves the right to change its percentage allocation among the Portfolios as we deem necessary to meet its investment objective.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Principal Investment Risks
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">An investment in the Fund may lose money, is not a deposit of Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. or its affiliates, is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other governmental agency, and is primarily subject to the risks briefly summarized below.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Allocation Methodology Risk.</b> A Fund is subject to the risk that the allocation methodology of the Dow Jones Target Date Index will not meet an investor's goals because it will not eliminate the investment volatility that could reduce the amount of funds available for an investor to withdraw when the investor intends to begin to withdraw a portion or all of the investor's investment in the Fund or it may over-emphasize conservative investments designed to ensure capital conservation and current income, which may ultimately prevent the investor from achieving the investor's income and appreciation goals.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Counter-Party Risk.</b> A Fund may incur a loss if the other party to an investment contract, such as a derivative or a repurchase or reverse repurchase agreement, fails to fulfill its contractual obligation to the Fund.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Debt Securities Risk.</b> The issuer of a debt security may fail to pay interest or principal when due, and the value of a debt security may decline if an issuer defaults or if its credit quality deteriorates. Changes in market interest rates may reduce the value of debt securities or reduce the Fund's returns.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Derivatives Risk.</b> The use of derivatives such as futures, options and swap agreements, can lead to losses, including those magnified by leverage, particularly when derivatives are used to enhance return rather than offset risk.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Emerging Markets Risk.</b> Foreign investment risks are typically greater for securities in emerging markets, which can be more vulnerable to recessions, currency volatility, inflation and market failure.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Foreign Investment Risk.</b> Foreign investments face the potential of heightened illiquidity, greater price volatility and adverse effects of political, regulatory, tax, currency, economic or other macroeconomic developments.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Growth Style Investment Risk.</b> Growth stocks may be more expensive relative to the values of other stocks and carry potential for significant volatility and loss.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Index Tracking Risk.</b> The ability to track an index may be affected by, among other things, transaction costs and shareholder purchases and redemptions.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Issuer Risk.</b> The value of a security may decline because of adverse events or circumstances that directly relate to conditions at the issuer or any entity providing it credit or liquidity support.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Leverage Risk.</b> Leverage created by borrowing or certain investments, such as derivatives and reverse repurchase agreements, can diminish the Fund's performance and increase the volatility of the Fund's net asset value.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Liquidity Risk.</b> A security may not be able to be sold at the time desired or without adversely affecting the price.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Management Risk.</b> There is no guarantee of the Fund's performance or that the Fund will meet its objective. The market value of your investment may decline and you may suffer investment loss.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Market Risk.</b> The market price of securities owned by the Fund may rapidly or unpredictably decline due to factors affecting securities markets generally or particular industries.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Mortgage- and Asset-Backed Securities Risk.</b> Mortgage- and asset-backed securities may decline in value when defaults on the underlying mortgage or assets occur and may exhibit additional volatility in periods of changing interest rates. When interest rates decline, the prepayment of mortgages or assets underlying such securities may require the Fund to reinvest such prepaid funds at lower prevailing interest rates, resulting in reduced returns.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Multi-Style Management Risk.</b> The management of the Fund's portfolio using different investment styles can result in higher transaction costs and lower tax efficiency than other funds which adhere to a single investment style.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Regulatory Risk.</b> Changes in government regulations may adversely affect the value of a security. An insufficiently regulated industry or market might also permit inappropriate practices that adversely affect an investment.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Smaller Company Securities Risk.</b> Securities of companies with smaller market capitalizations tend to be more volatile and less liquid than larger company stocks.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Futures Risk.</b> Because the futures utilized by a Fund are standardized and exchange-traded, where the exchange serves as the ultimate counterparty for all contracts, the primary credit risk on futures contracts is the creditworthiness of the exchange itself. Futures are also subject to market risk, interest rate risk (in the case of futures contracts relating to income producing securities) and index tracking risk (in the case of stock index futures).</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>U.S. Government Obligations Risk.</b> U.S. Government obligations may be adversely affected by changes in interest rates, a default by, or decline in the credit quality of, the U.S. Government, and may not be backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. Government.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Value Style Investment Risk.</b> Value stocks may lose value and may be subject to prolonged depressed valuations.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Performance
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing changes in the Fund's performance from year to year. The Fund's average annual total returns are compared to the performance of one or more indices. Past performance before and after taxes is no guarantee of future results. Current month-end performance is available on the Fund's Web site at wellsfargoadvantagefunds.com.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Calendar Year Total Returns as of 12/31 each year Administrator Class</b></p>
Highest Quarter: 2nd Quarter 2003
Lowest Quarter: 3rd Quarter 2008
Year-to-date total return as of 3/31/2013 is +0.90%
0.093-0.0546
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Average Annual Total Returns for the periods ended 12/31/2012 </b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">After-tax returns are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state, local or foreign taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on an investor's tax situation and may differ from those shown, and after-tax returns shown are not relevant to tax-exempt investors or investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) Plans or Individual Retirement Accounts.</p>
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<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Investment Objective
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund seeks to approximate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the Dow Jones Target 2015 Index℠.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Fees and Expenses
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">These tables are intended to help you understand the various costs and expenses you will pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment) </b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Example of Expenses
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The example below is intended to help you compare the costs of investing in the Fund with the costs of investing in other mutual funds. The example assumes a $10,000 initial investment, 5% annual total return, and that operating expenses remain the same as in the tables above. The example also assumes that the Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver shown above will only be in place for the length of the current waiver commitment. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Portfolio Turnover
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or "turns over" its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund's performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 35% of the average value of its portfolio.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Principal Investment Strategies
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">Under normal circumstances, we invest: </p>
<ul><li>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">at least 80% of the Fund's total assets in equity, fixed income and money market securities designed to approximate the holdings and weightings of the securities in the Dow Jones Target 2015 Index℠.</p>
</li></ul>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund is a gateway fund that invests in various master portfolios which in turn invest in a combination of equity, fixed income and money market securities using an asset allocation strategy designed to replicate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the Dow Jones Target 2015 Index℠. Similar to the methodology of the index, the Fund's investment strategy is to gradually reduce the Fund's potential market risk exposure over time by re-allocating the Fund's assets among these major asset classes: equity, fixed income and money market instruments. Generally, the longer the Fund's time horizon, the more of its assets are allocated to equity securities to pursue capital appreciation over the long term. As the Fund's time horizon shortens, it replaces some of its equity holdings with fixed income and money market holdings to reduce market risk and price volatility and thereby generally becomes more conservative in its asset allocation as the Fund's target year approaches and for the first 10 years after it arrives. The Fund's target year serves as a guide to the relative market risk exposure of the Fund, and your decision to invest in this Fund or another Wells Fargo Advantage Dow Jones Target Date Fund with a different target year and market risk exposure depends upon your individual risk tolerance, among other factors.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The "target year" designated in the Fund's name is the same as the year in the name of the Dow Jones Target 2015 Index℠. Although the individual goals of each investor with respect to a target year vary, an investor may intend for the target year to represent the approximate year in or around which the investor plans to begin withdrawing a portion or all of the investor's investment in the Fund and/or stop making new investments to the Fund. The Fund's goals may not align with the goals of an investor that seeks to begin to withdraw a portion or all of the investor's investment in the Fund significantly before or after the Fund's target year. In this respect, the Fund's goals may more closely align with an investor that intends to begin gradually withdrawing the value of the investor's account on or around the target year. In addition, the Fund will not have its most conservative asset allocation in the Fund's target year, which may not align with an investor's plan for withdrawing the investor's investment. The principal value of an investor's investment in the Fund is not guaranteed, and an investor may experience losses, at any time, including near, at or after the target year designated in the Fund's name. In addition, there is no guarantee that an investor's investment in the Fund will provide income at, and through the years following, the target year in the Fund's name in amounts adequate to meet the investor's goals.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">Currently, the master portfolios in which the Fund invests are the Wells Fargo Advantage Diversified Stock Portfolio, the Wells Fargo Advantage Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio, and the Wells Fargo Advantage Short-Term Investment Portfolio. The Diversified Stock Portfolio and the Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio seek to approximate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the respective equity and fixed income portions of the Dow Jones Target 2015 Index℠ by investing in the securities that comprise the sub-indexes representing the equity and fixed income asset classes, respectively, which securities may include, among others, growth and value stocks, foreign and emerging market equity investments, and securities of smaller companies, as well as debt securities, including corporate bonds, mortgage- and asset-backed securities and U.S. and foreign government obligations. The Diversified Stock Portfolio may also use derivatives, such as stock index futures in order to manage movements of the portfolio against certain indexes. The Diversified Stock Portfolio and the Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio use an optimization process, which seeks to balance the replication of index performance and security transaction costs. The Fund invests in the Short-Term Investment Portfolio to represent the cash component of the Dow Jones Target Date Indexes, but unlike the cash component of the Dow Jones Target 2015 Index℠, the Portfolio does not seek to replicate the Barclays 1-3 Month Treasury-Bill Index. This could result in potential tracking error between the performances of the Fund and the Dow Jones Target 2015 Index℠. By the time the Fund reaches its target year in 2015, its risk exposure will approach 28% of the risk of the global equity market. The Fund will not reach its lowest risk exposure of 20% of the risk of the global equity market until ten years past the Fund's target year. To measure the Fund's risk and the risk of the global equity market, we use a statistical method known as below-mean semi-variance, which quantifies portfolio risk levels by measuring only the below-average outcomes. This method is designed to provide a more useful and nuanced picture of the Fund's risk profile. As of February 28, 2013, the Dow Jones Target 2015 Index℠ included equity, fixed income and money market securities in the weights of 32%, 64% and 4%, respectively, which represent the percentage breakdown of the Fund's assets across the Diversified Stock, Diversified Fixed Income and Short-Term Investment Portfolios, respectively, as of such date, and may change over time. The Fund reserves the right to change its percentage allocation among the Portfolios as we deem necessary to meet its investment objective.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Principal Investment Risks
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">An investment in the Fund may lose money, is not a deposit of Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. or its affiliates, is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other governmental agency, and is primarily subject to the risks briefly summarized below.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Allocation Methodology Risk.</b> A Fund is subject to the risk that the allocation methodology of the Dow Jones Target Date Index will not meet an investor's goals because it will not eliminate the investment volatility that could reduce the amount of funds available for an investor to withdraw when the investor intends to begin to withdraw a portion or all of the investor's investment in the Fund or it may over-emphasize conservative investments designed to ensure capital conservation and current income, which may ultimately prevent the investor from achieving the investor's income and appreciation goals.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Counter-Party Risk.</b> A Fund may incur a loss if the other party to an investment contract, such as a derivative or a repurchase or reverse repurchase agreement, fails to fulfill its contractual obligation to the Fund.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Debt Securities Risk.</b> The issuer of a debt security may fail to pay interest or principal when due, and the value of a debt security may decline if an issuer defaults or if its credit quality deteriorates. Changes in market interest rates may reduce the value of debt securities or reduce the Fund's returns.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Derivatives Risk.</b> The use of derivatives such as futures, options and swap agreements, can lead to losses, including those magnified by leverage, particularly when derivatives are used to enhance return rather than offset risk.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Emerging Markets Risk.</b> Foreign investment risks are typically greater for securities in emerging markets, which can be more vulnerable to recessions, currency volatility, inflation and market failure.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Foreign Investment Risk.</b> Foreign investments face the potential of heightened illiquidity, greater price volatility and adverse effects of political, regulatory, tax, currency, economic or other macroeconomic developments.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Growth Style Investment Risk.</b> Growth stocks may be more expensive relative to the values of other stocks and carry potential for significant volatility and loss.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Index Tracking Risk.</b> The ability to track an index may be affected by, among other things, transaction costs and shareholder purchases and redemptions.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Issuer Risk.</b> The value of a security may decline because of adverse events or circumstances that directly relate to conditions at the issuer or any entity providing it credit or liquidity support.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Leverage Risk.</b> Leverage created by borrowing or certain investments, such as derivatives and reverse repurchase agreements, can diminish the Fund's performance and increase the volatility of the Fund's net asset value.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Liquidity Risk.</b> A security may not be able to be sold at the time desired or without adversely affecting the price.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Management Risk.</b> There is no guarantee of the Fund's performance or that the Fund will meet its objective. The market value of your investment may decline and you may suffer investment loss.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Market Risk.</b> The market price of securities owned by the Fund may rapidly or unpredictably decline due to factors affecting securities markets generally or particular industries.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Mortgage- and Asset-Backed Securities Risk.</b> Mortgage- and asset-backed securities may decline in value when defaults on the underlying mortgage or assets occur and may exhibit additional volatility in periods of changing interest rates. When interest rates decline, the prepayment of mortgages or assets underlying such securities may require the Fund to reinvest such prepaid funds at lower prevailing interest rates, resulting in reduced returns.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Multi-Style Management Risk.</b> The management of the Fund's portfolio using different investment styles can result in higher transaction costs and lower tax efficiency than other funds which adhere to a single investment style.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Regulatory Risk.</b> Changes in government regulations may adversely affect the value of a security. An insufficiently regulated industry or market might also permit inappropriate practices that adversely affect an investment.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Smaller Company Securities Risk.</b> Securities of companies with smaller market capitalizations tend to be more volatile and less liquid than larger company stocks.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Futures Risk.</b> Because the futures utilized by a Fund are standardized and exchange-traded, where the exchange serves as the ultimate counterparty for all contracts, the primary credit risk on futures contracts is the creditworthiness of the exchange itself. Futures are also subject to market risk, interest rate risk (in the case of futures contracts relating to income producing securities) and index tracking risk (in the case of stock index futures).</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>U.S. Government Obligations Risk.</b> U.S. Government obligations may be adversely affected by changes in interest rates, a default by, or decline in the credit quality of, the U.S. Government, and may not be backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. Government.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Value Style Investment Risk.</b> Value stocks may lose value and may be subject to prolonged depressed valuations.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Performance
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing changes in the Fund's performance from year to year. The Fund's average annual total returns are compared to the performance of one or more indices. Past performance before and after taxes is no guarantee of future results. Current month-end performance is available on the Fund's Web site at wellsfargoadvantagefunds.com.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Calendar Year Total Returns as of 12/31 each year Administrator Class</b></p>
Highest Quarter: 2nd Quarter 2009
Lowest Quarter: 4th Quarter 2008
Year-to-date total return as of 3/31/2013 is +1.90%
0.0998-0.0719
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Average Annual Total Returns for the periods ended 12/31/2012 </b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">After-tax returns are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state, local or foreign taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on an investor's tax situation and may differ from those shown, and after-tax returns shown are not relevant to tax-exempt investors or investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) Plans or Individual Retirement Accounts.</p>
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<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Investment Objective
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund seeks to approximate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the Dow Jones Target 2020 Index℠.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Fees and Expenses
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">These tables are intended to help you understand the various costs and expenses you will pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment) </b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Example of Expenses
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The example below is intended to help you compare the costs of investing in the Fund with the costs of investing in other mutual funds. The example assumes a $10,000 initial investment, 5% annual total return, and that operating expenses remain the same as in the tables above. The example also assumes that the Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver shown above will only be in place for the length of the current waiver commitment. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Portfolio Turnover
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or "turns over" its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund's performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 32% of the average value of its portfolio.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Principal Investment Strategies
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">Under normal circumstances, we invest: </p>
<ul><li>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">at least 80% of the Fund's total assets in equity, fixed income and money market securities designed to approximate the holdings and weightings of the securities in the Dow Jones Target 2020 Index℠.</p>
</li></ul>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund is a gateway fund that invests in various master portfolios which in turn invest in a combination of equity, fixed income and money market securities using an asset allocation strategy designed to replicate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the Dow Jones Target 2020 Index℠. Similar to the methodology of the index, the Fund's investment strategy is to gradually reduce the Fund's potential market risk exposure over time by re-allocating the Fund's assets among these major asset classes: equity, fixed income and money market instruments. Generally, the longer the Fund's time horizon, the more of its assets are allocated to equity securities to pursue capital appreciation over the long term. As the Fund's time horizon shortens, it replaces some of its equity holdings with fixed income and money market holdings to reduce market risk and price volatility and thereby generally becomes more conservative in its asset allocation as the Fund's target year approaches and for the first 10 years after it arrives. The Fund's target year serves as a guide to the relative market risk exposure of the Fund, and your decision to invest in this Fund or another Wells Fargo Advantage Dow Jones Target Date Fund with a different target year and market risk exposure depends upon your individual risk tolerance, among other factors.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The "target year" designated in the Fund's name is the same as the year in the name of the Dow Jones Target 2020 Index℠. Although the individual goals of each investor with respect to a target year vary, an investor may intend for the target year to represent the approximate year in or around which the investor plans to begin withdrawing a portion or all of the investor's investment in the Fund and/or stop making new investments to the Fund. The Fund's goals may not align with the goals of an investor that seeks to begin to withdraw a portion or all of the investor's investment in the Fund significantly before or after the Fund's target year. In this respect, the Fund's goals may more closely align with an investor that intends to begin gradually withdrawing the value of the investor's account on or around the target year. In addition, the Fund will not have its most conservative asset allocation in the Fund's target year, which may not align with an investor's plan for withdrawing the investor's investment. The principal value of an investor's investment in the Fund is not guaranteed, and an investor may experience losses, at any time, including near, at or after the target year designated in the Fund's name. In addition, there is no guarantee that an investor's investment in the Fund will provide income at, and through the years following, the target year in the Fund's name in amounts adequate to meet the investor's goals.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">Currently, the master portfolios in which the Fund invests are the Wells Fargo Advantage Diversified Stock Portfolio, the Wells Fargo Advantage Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio, and the Wells Fargo Advantage Short-Term Investment Portfolio. The Diversified Stock Portfolio and the Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio seek to approximate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the respective equity and fixed income portions of the Dow Jones Target 2020 Index℠ by investing in the securities that comprise the sub-indexes representing the equity and fixed income asset classes, respectively, which securities may include, among others, growth and value stocks, foreign and emerging market equity investments, and securities of smaller companies, as well as debt securities, including corporate bonds, mortgage- and asset-backed securities and U.S. and foreign government obligations. The Diversified Stock Portfolio may also use derivatives, such as stock index futures in order to manage movements of the portfolio against certain indexes. The Diversified Stock Portfolio and the Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio use an optimization process, which seeks to balance the replication of index performance and security transaction costs. The Fund invests in the Short-Term Investment Portfolio to represent the cash component of the Dow Jones Target Date Indexes, but unlike the cash component of the Dow Jones Target 2020 Index℠, the Portfolio does not seek to replicate the Barclays 1-3 Month Treasury-Bill Index. This could result in potential tracking error between the performances of the Fund and the Dow Jones Target 2020 Index℠. By the time the Fund reaches its target year in 2020, its risk exposure will approach 28% of the risk of the global equity market. The Fund will not reach its lowest risk exposure of 20% of the risk of the global equity market until ten years past the Fund's target year. To measure the Fund's risk and the risk of the global equity market, we use a statistical method known as below-mean semi-variance, which quantifies portfolio risk levels by measuring only the below-average outcomes. This method is designed to provide a more useful and nuanced picture of the Fund's risk profile. As of February 28, 2013, the Dow Jones Target 2020 Index℠ included equity, fixed income and money market securities in the weights of 44%, 52% and 4%, respectively, which represent the percentage breakdown of the Fund's assets across the Diversified Stock, Diversified Fixed Income and Short-Term Investment Portfolios, respectively, as of such date, and may change over time. The Fund reserves the right to change its percentage allocation among the Portfolios as we deem necessary to meet its investment objective.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Principal Investment Risks
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">An investment in the Fund may lose money, is not a deposit of Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. or its affiliates, is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other governmental agency, and is primarily subject to the risks briefly summarized below.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Allocation Methodology Risk.</b> A Fund is subject to the risk that the allocation methodology of the Dow Jones Target Date Index will not meet an investor's goals because it will not eliminate the investment volatility that could reduce the amount of funds available for an investor to withdraw when the investor intends to begin to withdraw a portion or all of the investor's investment in the Fund or it may over-emphasize conservative investments designed to ensure capital conservation and current income, which may ultimately prevent the investor from achieving the investor's income and appreciation goals.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Counter-Party Risk.</b> A Fund may incur a loss if the other party to an investment contract, such as a derivative or a repurchase or reverse repurchase agreement, fails to fulfill its contractual obligation to the Fund.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Debt Securities Risk.</b> The issuer of a debt security may fail to pay interest or principal when due, and the value of a debt security may decline if an issuer defaults or if its credit quality deteriorates. Changes in market interest rates may reduce the value of debt securities or reduce the Fund's returns.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Derivatives Risk.</b> The use of derivatives such as futures, options and swap agreements, can lead to losses, including those magnified by leverage, particularly when derivatives are used to enhance return rather than offset risk.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Emerging Markets Risk.</b> Foreign investment risks are typically greater for securities in emerging markets, which can be more vulnerable to recessions, currency volatility, inflation and market failure.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Foreign Investment Risk.</b> Foreign investments face the potential of heightened illiquidity, greater price volatility and adverse effects of political, regulatory, tax, currency, economic or other macroeconomic developments.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Growth Style Investment Risk.</b> Growth stocks may be more expensive relative to the values of other stocks and carry potential for significant volatility and loss.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Index Tracking Risk.</b> The ability to track an index may be affected by, among other things, transaction costs and shareholder purchases and redemptions.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Issuer Risk.</b> The value of a security may decline because of adverse events or circumstances that directly relate to conditions at the issuer or any entity providing it credit or liquidity support.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Leverage Risk.</b> Leverage created by borrowing or certain investments, such as derivatives and reverse repurchase agreements, can diminish the Fund's performance and increase the volatility of the Fund's net asset value.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Liquidity Risk.</b> A security may not be able to be sold at the time desired or without adversely affecting the price.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Management Risk.</b> There is no guarantee of the Fund's performance or that the Fund will meet its objective. The market value of your investment may decline and you may suffer investment loss.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Market Risk.</b> The market price of securities owned by the Fund may rapidly or unpredictably decline due to factors affecting securities markets generally or particular industries.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Mortgage- and Asset-Backed Securities Risk.</b> Mortgage- and asset-backed securities may decline in value when defaults on the underlying mortgage or assets occur and may exhibit additional volatility in periods of changing interest rates. When interest rates decline, the prepayment of mortgages or assets underlying such securities may require the Fund to reinvest such prepaid funds at lower prevailing interest rates, resulting in reduced returns.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Multi-Style Management Risk.</b> The management of the Fund's portfolio using different investment styles can result in higher transaction costs and lower tax efficiency than other funds which adhere to a single investment style.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Regulatory Risk.</b> Changes in government regulations may adversely affect the value of a security. An insufficiently regulated industry or market might also permit inappropriate practices that adversely affect an investment.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Smaller Company Securities Risk.</b> Securities of companies with smaller market capitalizations tend to be more volatile and less liquid than larger company stocks.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Futures Risk.</b> Because the futures utilized by a Fund are standardized and exchange-traded, where the exchange serves as the ultimate counterparty for all contracts, the primary credit risk on futures contracts is the creditworthiness of the exchange itself. Futures are also subject to market risk, interest rate risk (in the case of futures contracts relating to income producing securities) and index tracking risk (in the case of stock index futures).</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>U.S. Government Obligations Risk.</b> U.S. Government obligations may be adversely affected by changes in interest rates, a default by, or decline in the credit quality of, the U.S. Government, and may not be backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. Government.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Value Style Investment Risk.</b> Value stocks may lose value and may be subject to prolonged depressed valuations.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Performance
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing changes in the Fund's performance from year to year. The Fund's average annual total returns are compared to the performance of one or more indices. Past performance before and after taxes is no guarantee of future results. Current month-end performance is available on the Fund's Web site at wellsfargoadvantagefunds.com.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Calendar Year Total Returns as of 12/31 each year Administrator Class</b></p>
<b>Highest Quarter:</b> 2nd Quarter 2009
<b>Lowest Quarter:</b> 4th Quarter 2008
Year-to-date total return as of 3/31/2013 is +3.04%
0.1239-0.1071
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Average Annual Total Returns for the periods ended 12/31/2012 </b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">After-tax returns are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state, local or foreign taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on an investor's tax situation and may differ from those shown, and after-tax returns shown are not relevant to tax-exempt investors or investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) Plans or Individual Retirement Accounts.</p>
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<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Investment Objective
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund seeks to approximate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the Dow Jones Target 2025 Index℠.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Fees and Expenses
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">These tables are intended to help you understand the various costs and expenses you will pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment) </b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Example of Expenses
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The example below is intended to help you compare the costs of investing in the Fund with the costs of investing in other mutual funds. The example assumes a $10,000 initial investment, 5% annual total return, and that operating expenses remain the same as in the tables above. The example also assumes that the Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver shown above will only be in place for the length of the current waiver commitment. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Portfolio Turnover
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or "turns over" its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund's performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 28% of the average value of its portfolio.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Principal Investment Strategies
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">Under normal circumstances, we invest: </p>
<ul><li>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">at least 80% of the Fund's total assets in equity, fixed income and money market securities designed to approximate the holdings and weightings of the securities in the Dow Jones Target 2025 Index℠.</p>
</li></ul>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund is a gateway fund that invests in various master portfolios which in turn invest in a combination of equity, fixed income and money market securities using an asset allocation strategy designed to replicate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the Dow Jones Target 2025 Index℠. Similar to the methodology of the index, the Fund's investment strategy is to gradually reduce the Fund's potential market risk exposure over time by re-allocating the Fund's assets among these major asset classes: equity, fixed income and money market instruments. Generally, the longer the Fund's time horizon, the more of its assets are allocated to equity securities to pursue capital appreciation over the long term. As the Fund's time horizon shortens, it replaces some of its equity holdings with fixed income and money market holdings to reduce market risk and price volatility and thereby generally becomes more conservative in its asset allocation as the Fund's target year approaches and for the first 10 years after it arrives. The Fund's target year serves as a guide to the relative market risk exposure of the Fund, and your decision to invest in this Fund or another Wells Fargo Advantage Dow Jones Target Date Fund with a different target year and market risk exposure depends upon your individual risk tolerance, among other factors.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The "target year" designated in the Fund's name is the same as the year in the name of the Dow Jones Target 2025 Index℠. Although the individual goals of each investor with respect to a target year vary, an investor may intend for the target year to represent the approximate year in or around which the investor plans to begin withdrawing a portion or all of the investor's investment in the Fund and/or stop making new investments to the Fund. The Fund's goals may not align with the goals of an investor that seeks to begin to withdraw a portion or all of the investor's investment in the Fund significantly before or after the Fund's target year. In this respect, the Fund's goals may more closely align with an investor that intends to begin gradually withdrawing the value of the investor's account on or around the target year. In addition, the Fund will not have its most conservative asset allocation in the Fund's target year, which may not align with an investor's plan for withdrawing the investor's investment. The principal value of an investor's investment in the Fund is not guaranteed, and an investor may experience losses, at any time, including near, at or after the target year designated in the Fund's name. In addition, there is no guarantee that an investor's investment in the Fund will provide income at, and through the years following, the target year in the Fund's name in amounts adequate to meet the investor's goals.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">Currently, the master portfolios in which the Fund invests are the Wells Fargo Advantage Diversified Stock Portfolio, the Wells Fargo Advantage Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio, and the Wells Fargo Advantage Short-Term Investment Portfolio. The Diversified Stock Portfolio and the Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio seek to approximate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the respective equity and fixed income portions of the Dow Jones Target 2025 Index℠ by investing in the securities that comprise the sub-indexes representing the equity and fixed income asset classes, respectively, which securities may include, among others, growth and value stocks, foreign and emerging market equity investments, and securities of smaller companies, as well as debt securities, including corporate bonds, mortgage- and asset-backed securities and U.S. and foreign government obligations. The Diversified Stock Portfolio may also use derivatives, such as stock index futures in order to manage movements of the portfolio against certain indexes. The Diversified Stock Portfolio and the Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio use an optimization process, which seeks to balance the replication of index performance and security transaction costs. The Fund invests in the Short-Term Investment Portfolio to represent the cash component of the Dow Jones Target Date Indexes, but unlike the cash component of the Dow Jones Target 2025 Index℠, the Portfolio does not seek to replicate the Barclays 1-3 Month Treasury-Bill Index. This could result in potential tracking error between the performances of the Fund and the Dow Jones Target 2025 Index℠. By the time the Fund reaches its target year in 2025, its risk exposure will approach 28% of the risk of the global equity market. The Fund will not reach its lowest risk exposure of 20% of the risk of the global equity market until ten years past the Fund's target year. To measure the Fund's risk and the risk of the global equity market, we use a statistical method known as below-mean semi-variance, which quantifies portfolio risk levels by measuring only the below-average outcomes. This method is designed to provide a more useful and nuanced picture of the Fund's risk profile. As of February 28, 2013, the Dow Jones Target 2025 Index℠ included equity, fixed income and money market securities in the weights of 56%, 40% and 4%, respectively, which represent the percentage breakdown of the Fund's assets across the Diversified Stock, Diversified Fixed Income and Short-Term Investment Portfolios, respectively, as of such date, and may change over time. The Fund reserves the right to change its percentage allocation among the Portfolios as we deem necessary to meet its investment objective.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Principal Investment Risks
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">An investment in the Fund may lose money, is not a deposit of Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. or its affiliates, is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other governmental agency, and is primarily subject to the risks briefly summarized below.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Allocation Methodology Risk.</b> A Fund is subject to the risk that the allocation methodology of the Dow Jones Target Date Index will not meet an investor's goals because it will not eliminate the investment volatility that could reduce the amount of funds available for an investor to withdraw when the investor intends to begin to withdraw a portion or all of the investor's investment in the Fund or it may over-emphasize conservative investments designed to ensure capital conservation and current income, which may ultimately prevent the investor from achieving the investor's income and appreciation goals.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Counter-Party Risk.</b> A Fund may incur a loss if the other party to an investment contract, such as a derivative or a repurchase or reverse repurchase agreement, fails to fulfill its contractual obligation to the Fund.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Debt Securities Risk.</b> The issuer of a debt security may fail to pay interest or principal when due, and the value of a debt security may decline if an issuer defaults or if its credit quality deteriorates. Changes in market interest rates may reduce the value of debt securities or reduce the Fund's returns.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Derivatives Risk.</b> The use of derivatives such as futures, options and swap agreements, can lead to losses, including those magnified by leverage, particularly when derivatives are used to enhance return rather than offset risk.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Emerging Markets Risk.</b> Foreign investment risks are typically greater for securities in emerging markets, which can be more vulnerable to recessions, currency volatility, inflation and market failure.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Foreign Investment Risk.</b> Foreign investments face the potential of heightened illiquidity, greater price volatility and adverse effects of political, regulatory, tax, currency, economic or other macroeconomic developments.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Growth Style Investment Risk.</b> Growth stocks may be more expensive relative to the values of other stocks and carry potential for significant volatility and loss.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Index Tracking Risk.</b> The ability to track an index may be affected by, among other things, transaction costs and shareholder purchases and redemptions.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Issuer Risk.</b> The value of a security may decline because of adverse events or circumstances that directly relate to conditions at the issuer or any entity providing it credit or liquidity support.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Leverage Risk.</b> Leverage created by borrowing or certain investments, such as derivatives and reverse repurchase agreements, can diminish the Fund's performance and increase the volatility of the Fund's net asset value.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Liquidity Risk.</b> A security may not be able to be sold at the time desired or without adversely affecting the price.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Management Risk.</b> There is no guarantee of the Fund's performance or that the Fund will meet its objective. The market value of your investment may decline and you may suffer investment loss.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Market Risk.</b> The market price of securities owned by the Fund may rapidly or unpredictably decline due to factors affecting securities markets generally or particular industries.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Mortgage- and Asset-Backed Securities Risk.</b> Mortgage- and asset-backed securities may decline in value when defaults on the underlying mortgage or assets occur and may exhibit additional volatility in periods of changing interest rates. When interest rates decline, the prepayment of mortgages or assets underlying such securities may require the Fund to reinvest such prepaid funds at lower prevailing interest rates, resulting in reduced returns.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Multi-Style Management Risk.</b> The management of the Fund's portfolio using different investment styles can result in higher transaction costs and lower tax efficiency than other funds which adhere to a single investment style.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Regulatory Risk.</b> Changes in government regulations may adversely affect the value of a security. An insufficiently regulated industry or market might also permit inappropriate practices that adversely affect an investment.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Smaller Company Securities Risk.</b> Securities of companies with smaller market capitalizations tend to be more volatile and less liquid than larger company stocks.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Futures Risk.</b> Because the futures utilized by a Fund are standardized and exchange-traded, where the exchange serves as the ultimate counterparty for all contracts, the primary credit risk on futures contracts is the creditworthiness of the exchange itself. Futures are also subject to market risk, interest rate risk (in the case of futures contracts relating to income producing securities) and index tracking risk (in the case of stock index futures).</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>U.S. Government Obligations Risk.</b> U.S. Government obligations may be adversely affected by changes in interest rates, a default by, or decline in the credit quality of, the U.S. Government, and may not be backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. Government.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Value Style Investment Risk.</b> Value stocks may lose value and may be subject to prolonged depressed valuations.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Performance
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing changes in the Fund's performance from year to year. The Fund's average annual total returns are compared to the performance of one or more indices. Past performance before and after taxes is no guarantee of future results. Current month-end performance is available on the Fund's Web site at wellsfargoadvantagefunds.com.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Calendar Year Total Returns as of 12/31 each year Administrator Class</b></p>
Highest Quarter: 2nd Quarter 2009
Lowest Quarter: 4th Quarter 2008
Year-to-date total return as of 3/31/2013 is +4.21%
0.1509-0.1428
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Average Annual Total Returns for the periods ended 12/31/2012 </b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">After-tax returns are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state, local or foreign taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on an investor's tax situation and may differ from those shown, and after-tax returns shown are not relevant to tax-exempt investors or investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) Plans or Individual Retirement Accounts.</p>
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<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Investment Objective
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund seeks to approximate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the Dow Jones Target 2030 Index℠.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Fees and Expenses
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">These tables are intended to help you understand the various costs and expenses you will pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment) </b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Example of Expenses
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The example below is intended to help you compare the costs of investing in the Fund with the costs of investing in other mutual funds. The example assumes a $10,000 initial investment, 5% annual total return, and that operating expenses remain the same as in the tables above. The example also assumes that the Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver shown above will only be in place for the length of the current waiver commitment. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Portfolio Turnover
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or "turns over" its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund's performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 25% of the average value of its portfolio.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Principal Investment Strategies
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">Under normal circumstances, we invest: </p>
<ul><li>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">at least 80% of the Fund's total assets in equity, fixed income and money market securities designed to approximate the holdings and weightings of the securities in the Dow Jones Target 2030 Index℠.</p>
</li></ul>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund is a gateway fund that invests in various master portfolios which in turn invest in a combination of equity, fixed income and money market securities using an asset allocation strategy designed to replicate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the Dow Jones Target 2030 Index℠. Similar to the methodology of the index, the Fund's investment strategy is to gradually reduce the Fund's potential market risk exposure over time by re-allocating the Fund's assets among these major asset classes: equity, fixed income and money market instruments. Generally, the longer the Fund's time horizon, the more of its assets are allocated to equity securities to pursue capital appreciation over the long term. As the Fund's time horizon shortens, it replaces some of its equity holdings with fixed income and money market holdings to reduce market risk and price volatility and thereby generally becomes more conservative in its asset allocation as the Fund's target year approaches and for the first 10 years after it arrives. The Fund's target year serves as a guide to the relative market risk exposure of the Fund, and your decision to invest in this Fund or another Wells Fargo Advantage Dow Jones Target Date Fund with a different target year and market risk exposure depends upon your individual risk tolerance, among other factors.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The "target year" designated in the Fund's name is the same as the year in the name of the Dow Jones Target 2030 Index℠. Although the individual goals of each investor with respect to a target year vary, an investor may intend for the target year to represent the approximate year in or around which the investor plans to begin withdrawing a portion or all of the investor's investment in the Fund and/or stop making new investments to the Fund. The Fund's goals may not align with the goals of an investor that seeks to begin to withdraw a portion or all of the investor's investment in the Fund significantly before or after the Fund's target year. In this respect, the Fund's goals may more closely align with an investor that intends to begin gradually withdrawing the value of the investor's account on or around the target year. In addition, the Fund will not have its most conservative asset allocation in the Fund's target year, which may not align with an investor's plan for withdrawing the investor's investment. The principal value of an investor's investment in the Fund is not guaranteed, and an investor may experience losses, at any time, including near, at or after the target year designated in the Fund's name. In addition, there is no guarantee that an investor's investment in the Fund will provide income at, and through the years following, the target year in the Fund's name in amounts adequate to meet the investor's goals.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">Currently, the master portfolios in which the Fund invests are the Wells Fargo Advantage Diversified Stock Portfolio, the Wells Fargo Advantage Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio, and the Wells Fargo Advantage Short-Term Investment Portfolio. The Diversified Stock Portfolio and the Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio seek to approximate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the respective equity and fixed income portions of the Dow Jones Target 2030 Index℠ by investing in the securities that comprise the sub-indexes representing the equity and fixed income asset classes, respectively, which securities may include, among others, growth and value stocks, foreign and emerging market equity investments, and securities of smaller companies, as well as debt securities, including corporate bonds, mortgage- and asset-backed securities and U.S. and foreign government obligations. The Diversified Stock Portfolio may also use derivatives, such as stock index futures in order to manage movements of the portfolio against certain indexes. The Diversified Stock Portfolio and the Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio use an optimization process, which seeks to balance the replication of index performance and security transaction costs. The Fund invests in the Short-Term Investment Portfolio to represent the cash component of the Dow Jones Target Date Indexes, but unlike the cash component of the Dow Jones Target 2030 Index℠, the Portfolio does not seek to replicate the Barclays 1-3 Month Treasury-Bill Index. This could result in potential tracking error between the performances of the Fund and the Dow Jones Target 2030 Index℠. By the time the Fund reaches its target year in 2030, its risk exposure will approach 28% of the risk of the global equity market. The Fund will not reach its lowest risk exposure of 20% of the risk of the global equity market until ten years past the Fund's target year. To measure the Fund's risk and the risk of the global equity market, we use a statistical method known as below-mean semi-variance, which quantifies portfolio risk levels by measuring only the below-average outcomes. This method is designed to provide a more useful and nuanced picture of the Fund's risk profile. As of February 28, 2013, the Dow Jones Target 2030 Index℠ included equity, fixed income and money market securities in the weights of 68%, 28% and 4%, respectively, which represent the percentage breakdown of the Fund's assets across the Diversified Stock, Diversified Fixed Income and Short-Term Investment Portfolios, respectively, as of such date, and may change over time. The Fund reserves the right to change its percentage allocation among the Portfolios as we deem necessary to meet its investment objective.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Principal Investment Risks
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">An investment in the Fund may lose money, is not a deposit of Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. or its affiliates, is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other governmental agency, and is primarily subject to the risks briefly summarized below.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Allocation Methodology Risk.</b> A Fund is subject to the risk that the allocation methodology of the Dow Jones Target Date Index will not meet an investor's goals because it will not eliminate the investment volatility that could reduce the amount of funds available for an investor to withdraw when the investor intends to begin to withdraw a portion or all of the investor's investment in the Fund or it may over-emphasize conservative investments designed to ensure capital conservation and current income, which may ultimately prevent the investor from achieving the investor's income and appreciation goals.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Counter-Party Risk.</b> A Fund may incur a loss if the other party to an investment contract, such as a derivative or a repurchase or reverse repurchase agreement, fails to fulfill its contractual obligation to the Fund.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Debt Securities Risk.</b> The issuer of a debt security may fail to pay interest or principal when due, and the value of a debt security may decline if an issuer defaults or if its credit quality deteriorates. Changes in market interest rates may reduce the value of debt securities or reduce the Fund's returns.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Derivatives Risk.</b> The use of derivatives such as futures, options and swap agreements, can lead to losses, including those magnified by leverage, particularly when derivatives are used to enhance return rather than offset risk.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Emerging Markets Risk.</b> Foreign investment risks are typically greater for securities in emerging markets, which can be more vulnerable to recessions, currency volatility, inflation and market failure.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Foreign Investment Risk.</b> Foreign investments face the potential of heightened illiquidity, greater price volatility and adverse effects of political, regulatory, tax, currency, economic or other macroeconomic developments.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Growth Style Investment Risk.</b> Growth stocks may be more expensive relative to the values of other stocks and carry potential for significant volatility and loss.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Index Tracking Risk.</b> The ability to track an index may be affected by, among other things, transaction costs and shareholder purchases and redemptions.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Issuer Risk.</b> The value of a security may decline because of adverse events or circumstances that directly relate to conditions at the issuer or any entity providing it credit or liquidity support.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Leverage Risk.</b> Leverage created by borrowing or certain investments, such as derivatives and reverse repurchase agreements, can diminish the Fund's performance and increase the volatility of the Fund's net asset value.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Liquidity Risk.</b> A security may not be able to be sold at the time desired or without adversely affecting the price.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Management Risk.</b> There is no guarantee of the Fund's performance or that the Fund will meet its objective. The market value of your investment may decline and you may suffer investment loss.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Market Risk.</b> The market price of securities owned by the Fund may rapidly or unpredictably decline due to factors affecting securities markets generally or particular industries.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Mortgage- and Asset-Backed Securities Risk.</b> Mortgage- and asset-backed securities may decline in value when defaults on the underlying mortgage or assets occur and may exhibit additional volatility in periods of changing interest rates. When interest rates decline, the prepayment of mortgages or assets underlying such securities may require the Fund to reinvest such prepaid funds at lower prevailing interest rates, resulting in reduced returns.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Multi-Style Management Risk.</b> The management of the Fund's portfolio using different investment styles can result in higher transaction costs and lower tax efficiency than other funds which adhere to a single investment style.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Regulatory Risk.</b> Changes in government regulations may adversely affect the value of a security. An insufficiently regulated industry or market might also permit inappropriate practices that adversely affect an investment.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Smaller Company Securities Risk.</b> Securities of companies with smaller market capitalizations tend to be more volatile and less liquid than larger company stocks.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Futures Risk.</b> Because the futures utilized by a Fund are standardized and exchange-traded, where the exchange serves as the ultimate counterparty for all contracts, the primary credit risk on futures contracts is the creditworthiness of the exchange itself. Futures are also subject to market risk, interest rate risk (in the case of futures contracts relating to income producing securities) and index tracking risk (in the case of stock index futures).</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>U.S. Government Obligations Risk.</b> U.S. Government obligations may be adversely affected by changes in interest rates, a default by, or decline in the credit quality of, the U.S. Government, and may not be backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. Government.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Value Style Investment Risk.</b> Value stocks may lose value and may be subject to prolonged depressed valuations.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Performance
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing changes in the Fund's performance from year to year. The Fund's average annual total returns are compared to the performance of one or more indices. Past performance before and after taxes is no guarantee of future results. Current month-end performance is available on the Fund's Web site at wellsfargoadvantagefunds.com.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Calendar Year Total Returns as of 12/31 each year Administrator Class</b></p>
Highest Quarter: 2nd Quarter 2009
Lowest Quarter: 4th Quarter 2008
Year-to-date total return as of 3/31/2013 is +5.41%
0.1779-0.1735
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Average Annual Total Returns for the periods ended 12/31/2012 </b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">After-tax returns are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state, local or foreign taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on an investor's tax situation and may differ from those shown, and after-tax returns shown are not relevant to tax-exempt investors or investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) Plans or Individual Retirement Accounts.</p>
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<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Investment Objective
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund seeks to approximate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the Dow Jones Target 2035 Index℠.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Fees and Expenses
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">These tables are intended to help you understand the various costs and expenses you will pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment) </b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Example of Expenses
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The example below is intended to help you compare the costs of investing in the Fund with the costs of investing in other mutual funds. The example assumes a $10,000 initial investment, 5% annual total return, and that operating expenses remain the same as in the tables above. The example also assumes that the Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver shown above will only be in place for the length of the current waiver commitment. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Portfolio Turnover
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or "turns over" its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund's performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 22% of the average value of its portfolio.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Principal Investment Strategies
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">Under normal circumstances, we invest: </p>
<ul><li>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">at least 80% of the Fund's total assets in equity, fixed income and money market securities designed to approximate the holdings and weightings of the securities in the Dow Jones Target 2035 Index℠.</p>
</li></ul>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund is a gateway fund that invests in various master portfolios which in turn invest in a combination of equity, fixed income and money market securities using an asset allocation strategy designed to replicate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the Dow Jones Target 2035 Index℠. Similar to the methodology of the index, the Fund's investment strategy is to gradually reduce the Fund's potential market risk exposure over time by re-allocating the Fund's assets among these major asset classes: equity, fixed income and money market instruments. Generally, the longer the Fund's time horizon, the more of its assets are allocated to equity securities to pursue capital appreciation over the long term. As the Fund's time horizon shortens, it replaces some of its equity holdings with fixed income and money market holdings to reduce market risk and price volatility and thereby generally becomes more conservative in its asset allocation as the Fund's target year approaches and for the first 10 years after it arrives. The Fund's target year serves as a guide to the relative market risk exposure of the Fund, and your decision to invest in this Fund or another Wells Fargo Advantage Dow Jones Target Date Fund with a different target year and market risk exposure depends upon your individual risk tolerance, among other factors.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The "target year" designated in the Fund's name is the same as the year in the name of the Dow Jones Target 2035 Index℠. Although the individual goals of each investor with respect to a target year vary, an investor may intend for the target year to represent the approximate year in or around which the investor plans to begin withdrawing a portion or all of the investor's investment in the Fund and/or stop making new investments to the Fund. The Fund's goals may not align with the goals of an investor that seeks to begin to withdraw a portion or all of the investor's investment in the Fund significantly before or after the Fund's target year. In this respect, the Fund's goals may more closely align with an investor that intends to begin gradually withdrawing the value of the investor's account on or around the target year. In addition, the Fund will not have its most conservative asset allocation in the Fund's target year, which may not align with an investor's plan for withdrawing the investor's investment. The principal value of an investor's investment in the Fund is not guaranteed, and an investor may experience losses, at any time, including near, at or after the target year designated in the Fund's name. In addition, there is no guarantee that an investor's investment in the Fund will provide income at, and through the years following, the target year in the Fund's name in amounts adequate to meet the investor's goals.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">Currently, the master portfolios in which the Fund invests are the Wells Fargo Advantage Diversified Stock Portfolio, the Wells Fargo Advantage Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio, and the Wells Fargo Advantage Short-Term Investment Portfolio. The Diversified Stock Portfolio and the Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio seek to approximate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the respective equity and fixed income portions of the Dow Jones Target 2035 Index℠ by investing in the securities that comprise the sub-indexes representing the equity and fixed income asset classes, respectively, which securities may include, among others, growth and value stocks, foreign and emerging market equity investments, and securities of smaller companies, as well as debt securities, including corporate bonds, mortgage- and asset-backed securities and U.S. and foreign government obligations. The Diversified Stock Portfolio may also use derivatives, such as stock index futures in order to manage movements of the portfolio against certain indexes. The Diversified Stock Portfolio and the Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio use an optimization process, which seeks to balance the replication of index performance and security transaction costs. The Fund invests in the Short-Term Investment Portfolio to represent the cash component of the Dow Jones Target Date Indexes, but unlike the cash component of the Dow Jones Target 2035 Index℠, the Portfolio does not seek to replicate the Barclays 1-3 Month Treasury-Bill Index. This could result in potential tracking error between the performances of the Fund and the Dow Jones Target 2035 Index℠. By the time the Fund reaches its target year in 2035, its risk exposure will approach 28% of the risk of the global equity market. The Fund will not reach its lowest risk exposure of 20% of the risk of the global equity market until ten years past the Fund's target year. To measure the Fund's risk and the risk of the global equity market, we use a statistical method known as below-mean semi-variance, which quantifies portfolio risk levels by measuring only the below-average outcomes. This method is designed to provide a more useful and nuanced picture of the Fund's risk profile. As of February 28, 2013, the Dow Jones Target 2035 Index℠ included equity, fixed income and money market securities in the weights of 79%, 17% and 4%, respectively, which represent the percentage breakdown of the Fund's assets across the Diversified Stock, Diversified Fixed Income and Short-Term Investment Portfolios, respectively, as of such date, and may change over time. The Fund reserves the right to change its percentage allocation among the Portfolios as we deem necessary to meet its investment objective.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Principal Investment Risks
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">An investment in the Fund may lose money, is not a deposit of Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. or its affiliates, is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other governmental agency, and is primarily subject to the risks briefly summarized below.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Allocation Methodology Risk.</b> A Fund is subject to the risk that the allocation methodology of the Dow Jones Target Date Index will not meet an investor's goals because it will not eliminate the investment volatility that could reduce the amount of funds available for an investor to withdraw when the investor intends to begin to withdraw a portion or all of the investor's investment in the Fund or it may over-emphasize conservative investments designed to ensure capital conservation and current income, which may ultimately prevent the investor from achieving the investor's income and appreciation goals.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Counter-Party Risk.</b> A Fund may incur a loss if the other party to an investment contract, such as a derivative or a repurchase or reverse repurchase agreement, fails to fulfill its contractual obligation to the Fund.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Debt Securities Risk.</b> The issuer of a debt security may fail to pay interest or principal when due, and the value of a debt security may decline if an issuer defaults or if its credit quality deteriorates. Changes in market interest rates may reduce the value of debt securities or reduce the Fund's returns.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Derivatives Risk.</b> The use of derivatives such as futures, options and swap agreements, can lead to losses, including those magnified by leverage, particularly when derivatives are used to enhance return rather than offset risk.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Emerging Markets Risk.</b> Foreign investment risks are typically greater for securities in emerging markets, which can be more vulnerable to recessions, currency volatility, inflation and market failure.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Foreign Investment Risk.</b> Foreign investments face the potential of heightened illiquidity, greater price volatility and adverse effects of political, regulatory, tax, currency, economic or other macroeconomic developments.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Growth Style Investment Risk.</b> Growth stocks may be more expensive relative to the values of other stocks and carry potential for significant volatility and loss.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Index Tracking Risk.</b> The ability to track an index may be affected by, among other things, transaction costs and shareholder purchases and redemptions.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Issuer Risk.</b> The value of a security may decline because of adverse events or circumstances that directly relate to conditions at the issuer or any entity providing it credit or liquidity support.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Leverage Risk.</b> Leverage created by borrowing or certain investments, such as derivatives and reverse repurchase agreements, can diminish the Fund's performance and increase the volatility of the Fund's net asset value.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Liquidity Risk.</b> A security may not be able to be sold at the time desired or without adversely affecting the price.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Management Risk.</b> There is no guarantee of the Fund's performance or that the Fund will meet its objective. The market value of your investment may decline and you may suffer investment loss.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Market Risk.</b> The market price of securities owned by the Fund may rapidly or unpredictably decline due to factors affecting securities markets generally or particular industries.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Mortgage- and Asset-Backed Securities Risk.</b> Mortgage- and asset-backed securities may decline in value when defaults on the underlying mortgage or assets occur and may exhibit additional volatility in periods of changing interest rates. When interest rates decline, the prepayment of mortgages or assets underlying such securities may require the Fund to reinvest such prepaid funds at lower prevailing interest rates, resulting in reduced returns.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Multi-Style Management Risk.</b> The management of the Fund's portfolio using different investment styles can result in higher transaction costs and lower tax efficiency than other funds which adhere to a single investment style.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Regulatory Risk.</b> Changes in government regulations may adversely affect the value of a security. An insufficiently regulated industry or market might also permit inappropriate practices that adversely affect an investment.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Smaller Company Securities Risk.</b> Securities of companies with smaller market capitalizations tend to be more volatile and less liquid than larger company stocks.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Futures Risk.</b> Because the futures utilized by a Fund are standardized and exchange-traded, where the exchange serves as the ultimate counterparty for all contracts, the primary credit risk on futures contracts is the creditworthiness of the exchange itself. Futures are also subject to market risk, interest rate risk (in the case of futures contracts relating to income producing securities) and index tracking risk (in the case of stock index futures).</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>U.S. Government Obligations Risk.</b> U.S. Government obligations may be adversely affected by changes in interest rates, a default by, or decline in the credit quality of, the U.S. Government, and may not be backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. Government.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Value Style Investment Risk.</b> Value stocks may lose value and may be subject to prolonged depressed valuations.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Performance
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing changes in the Fund's performance from year to year. The Fund's average annual total returns are compared to the performance of one or more indices. Past performance before and after taxes is no guarantee of future results. Current month-end performance is available on the Fund's Web site at wellsfargoadvantagefunds.com.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Calendar Year Total Returns as of 12/31 each year Administrator Class</b></p>
Highest Quarter: 2nd Quarter 2009
Lowest Quarter: 4th Quarter 2008
Year-to-date total return as of 3/31/2013 is +6.44%
0.1951-0.1931
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Average Annual Total Returns for the periods ended 12/31/2012 </b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">After-tax returns are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state, local or foreign taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on an investor's tax situation and may differ from those shown, and after-tax returns shown are not relevant to tax-exempt investors or investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) Plans or Individual Retirement Accounts.</p>
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<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Investment Objective
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund seeks to approximate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the Dow Jones Target 2040 Index℠.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Fees and Expenses
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">These tables are intended to help you understand the various costs and expenses you will pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment) </b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Example of Expenses
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The example below is intended to help you compare the costs of investing in the Fund with the costs of investing in other mutual funds. The example assumes a $10,000 initial investment, 5% annual total return, and that operating expenses remain the same as in the tables above. The example also assumes that the Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver shown above will only be in place for the length of the current waiver commitment. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Portfolio Turnover
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or "turns over" its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund's performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 20% of the average value of its portfolio.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Principal Investment Strategies
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">Under normal circumstances, we invest: </p>
<ul><li>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">at least 80% of the Fund's total assets in equity, fixed income and money market securities designed to approximate the holdings and weightings of the securities in the Dow Jones Target 2040 Index℠.</p>
</li></ul>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund is a gateway fund that invests in various master portfolios which in turn invest in a combination of equity, fixed income and money market securities using an asset allocation strategy designed to replicate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the Dow Jones Target 2040 Index℠. Similar to the methodology of the index, the Fund's investment strategy is to gradually reduce the Fund's potential market risk exposure over time by re-allocating the Fund's assets among these major asset classes: equity, fixed income and money market instruments. Generally, the longer the Fund's time horizon, the more of its assets are allocated to equity securities to pursue capital appreciation over the long term. As the Fund's time horizon shortens, it replaces some of its equity holdings with fixed income and money market holdings to reduce market risk and price volatility and thereby generally becomes more conservative in its asset allocation as the Fund's target year approaches and for the first 10 years after it arrives. The Fund's target year serves as a guide to the relative market risk exposure of the Fund, and your decision to invest in this Fund or another Wells Fargo Advantage Dow Jones Target Date Fund with a different target year and market risk exposure depends upon your individual risk tolerance, among other factors.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The "target year" designated in the Fund's name is the same as the year in the name of the Dow Jones Target 2040 Index℠. Although the individual goals of each investor with respect to a target year vary, an investor may intend for the target year to represent the approximate year in or around which the investor plans to begin withdrawing a portion or all of the investor's investment in the Fund and/or stop making new investments to the Fund. The Fund's goals may not align with the goals of an investor that seeks to begin to withdraw a portion or all of the investor's investment in the Fund significantly before or after the Fund's target year. In this respect, the Fund's goals may more closely align with an investor that intends to begin gradually withdrawing the value of the investor's account on or around the target year. In addition, the Fund will not have its most conservative asset allocation in the Fund's target year, which may not align with an investor's plan for withdrawing the investor's investment. The principal value of an investor's investment in the Fund is not guaranteed, and an investor may experience losses, at any time, including near, at or after the target year designated in the Fund's name. In addition, there is no guarantee that an investor's investment in the Fund will provide income at, and through the years following, the target year in the Fund's name in amounts adequate to meet the investor's goals.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">Currently, the master portfolios in which the Fund invests are the Wells Fargo Advantage Diversified Stock Portfolio, the Wells Fargo Advantage Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio, and the Wells Fargo Advantage Short-Term Investment Portfolio. The Diversified Stock Portfolio and the Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio seek to approximate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the respective equity and fixed income portions of the Dow Jones Target 2040 Index℠ by investing in the securities that comprise the sub-indexes representing the equity and fixed income asset classes, respectively, which securities may include, among others, growth and value stocks, foreign and emerging market equity investments, and securities of smaller companies, as well as debt securities, including corporate bonds, mortgage- and asset-backed securities and U.S. and foreign government obligations. The Diversified Stock Portfolio may also use derivatives, such as stock index futures in order to manage movements of the portfolio against certain indexes. The Diversified Stock Portfolio and the Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio use an optimization process, which seeks to balance the replication of index performance and security transaction costs. The Fund invests in the Short-Term Investment Portfolio to represent the cash component of the Dow Jones Target Date Indexes, but unlike the cash component of the Dow Jones Target 2040 Index℠, the Portfolio does not seek to replicate the Barclays 1-3 Month Treasury-Bill Index. This could result in potential tracking error between the performances of the Fund and the Dow Jones Target 2040 Index℠. By the time the Fund reaches its target year in 2040, its risk exposure will approach 28% of the risk of the global equity market. The Fund will not reach its lowest risk exposure of 20% of the risk of the global equity market until ten years past the Fund's target year. To measure the Fund's risk and the risk of the global equity market, we use a statistical method known as below-mean semi-variance, which quantifies portfolio risk levels by measuring only the below-average outcomes. This method is designed to provide a more useful and nuanced picture of the Fund's risk profile. As of February 28, 2013, the Dow Jones Target 2040 Index℠ included equity, fixed income and money market securities in the weights of 86%, 10% and 4%, respectively, which represent the percentage breakdown of the Fund's assets across the Diversified Stock, Diversified Fixed Income and Short-Term Investment Portfolios, respectively, as of such date, and may change over time. The Fund reserves the right to change its percentage allocation among the Portfolios as we deem necessary to meet its investment objective.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Principal Investment Risks
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">An investment in the Fund may lose money, is not a deposit of Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. or its affiliates, is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other governmental agency, and is primarily subject to the risks briefly summarized below.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Allocation Methodology Risk.</b> A Fund is subject to the risk that the allocation methodology of the Dow Jones Target Date Index will not meet an investor's goals because it will not eliminate the investment volatility that could reduce the amount of funds available for an investor to withdraw when the investor intends to begin to withdraw a portion or all of the investor's investment in the Fund or it may over-emphasize conservative investments designed to ensure capital conservation and current income, which may ultimately prevent the investor from achieving the investor's income and appreciation goals.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Counter-Party Risk.</b> A Fund may incur a loss if the other party to an investment contract, such as a derivative or a repurchase or reverse repurchase agreement, fails to fulfill its contractual obligation to the Fund.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Debt Securities Risk.</b> The issuer of a debt security may fail to pay interest or principal when due, and the value of a debt security may decline if an issuer defaults or if its credit quality deteriorates. Changes in market interest rates may reduce the value of debt securities or reduce the Fund's returns.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Derivatives Risk.</b> The use of derivatives such as futures, options and swap agreements, can lead to losses, including those magnified by leverage, particularly when derivatives are used to enhance return rather than offset risk.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Emerging Markets Risk.</b> Foreign investment risks are typically greater for securities in emerging markets, which can be more vulnerable to recessions, currency volatility, inflation and market failure.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Foreign Investment Risk.</b> Foreign investments face the potential of heightened illiquidity, greater price volatility and adverse effects of political, regulatory, tax, currency, economic or other macroeconomic developments.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Growth Style Investment Risk.</b> Growth stocks may be more expensive relative to the values of other stocks and carry potential for significant volatility and loss.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Index Tracking Risk.</b> The ability to track an index may be affected by, among other things, transaction costs and shareholder purchases and redemptions.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Issuer Risk.</b> The value of a security may decline because of adverse events or circumstances that directly relate to conditions at the issuer or any entity providing it credit or liquidity support.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Leverage Risk.</b> Leverage created by borrowing or certain investments, such as derivatives and reverse repurchase agreements, can diminish the Fund's performance and increase the volatility of the Fund's net asset value.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Liquidity Risk.</b> A security may not be able to be sold at the time desired or without adversely affecting the price.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Management Risk.</b> There is no guarantee of the Fund's performance or that the Fund will meet its objective. The market value of your investment may decline and you may suffer investment loss.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Market Risk.</b> The market price of securities owned by the Fund may rapidly or unpredictably decline due to factors affecting securities markets generally or particular industries.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Mortgage- and Asset-Backed Securities Risk.</b> Mortgage- and asset-backed securities may decline in value when defaults on the underlying mortgage or assets occur and may exhibit additional volatility in periods of changing interest rates. When interest rates decline, the prepayment of mortgages or assets underlying such securities may require the Fund to reinvest such prepaid funds at lower prevailing interest rates, resulting in reduced returns.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Multi-Style Management Risk.</b> The management of the Fund's portfolio using different investment styles can result in higher transaction costs and lower tax efficiency than other funds which adhere to a single investment style.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Regulatory Risk.</b> Changes in government regulations may adversely affect the value of a security. An insufficiently regulated industry or market might also permit inappropriate practices that adversely affect an investment.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Smaller Company Securities Risk.</b> Securities of companies with smaller market capitalizations tend to be more volatile and less liquid than larger company stocks.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Futures Risk.</b> Because the futures utilized by a Fund are standardized and exchange-traded, where the exchange serves as the ultimate counterparty for all contracts, the primary credit risk on futures contracts is the creditworthiness of the exchange itself. Futures are also subject to market risk, interest rate risk (in the case of futures contracts relating to income producing securities) and index tracking risk (in the case of stock index futures).</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>U.S. Government Obligations Risk.</b> U.S. Government obligations may be adversely affected by changes in interest rates, a default by, or decline in the credit quality of, the U.S. Government, and may not be backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. Government.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Value Style Investment Risk.</b> Value stocks may lose value and may be subject to prolonged depressed valuations.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Performance
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing changes in the Fund's performance from year to year. The Fund's average annual total returns are compared to the performance of one or more indices. Past performance before and after taxes is no guarantee of future results. Current month-end performance is available on the Fund's Web site at wellsfargoadvantagefunds.com.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Calendar Year Total Returns as of 12/31 each year Administrator Class</b></p>
Highest Quarter: 2nd Quarter 2009
Lowest Quarter: 4th Quarter 2008
Year-to-date total return as of 3/31/2013 is +7.23%
0.2064-0.2091
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Average Annual Total Returns for the periods ended 12/31/2012 </b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">After-tax returns are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state, local or foreign taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on an investor's tax situation and may differ from those shown, and after-tax returns shown are not relevant to tax-exempt investors or investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) Plans or Individual Retirement Accounts.</p>
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<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Investment Objective
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund seeks to approximate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the Dow Jones Target 2045 Index℠.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Fees and Expenses
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">These tables are intended to help you understand the various costs and expenses you will pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment) </b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Example of Expenses
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The example below is intended to help you compare the costs of investing in the Fund with the costs of investing in other mutual funds. The example assumes a $10,000 initial investment, 5% annual total return, and that operating expenses remain the same as in the tables above. The example also assumes that the Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver shown above will only be in place for the length of the current waiver commitment. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Portfolio Turnover
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or "turns over" its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund's performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 19% of the average value of its portfolio.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Principal Investment Strategies
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">Under normal circumstances, we invest: </p>
<ul><li>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">at least 80% of the Fund's total assets in equity, fixed income and money market securities designed to approximate the holdings and weightings of the securities in the Dow Jones Target 2045 Index℠.</p>
</li></ul>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund is a gateway fund that invests in various master portfolios which in turn invest in a combination of equity, fixed income and money market securities using an asset allocation strategy designed to replicate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the Dow Jones Target 2045 Index℠. Similar to the methodology of the index, the Fund's investment strategy is to gradually reduce the Fund's potential market risk exposure over time by re-allocating the Fund's assets among these major asset classes: equity, fixed income and money market instruments. Generally, the longer the Fund's time horizon, the more of its assets are allocated to equity securities to pursue capital appreciation over the long term. As the Fund's time horizon shortens, it replaces some of its equity holdings with fixed income and money market holdings to reduce market risk and price volatility and thereby generally becomes more conservative in its asset allocation as the Fund's target year approaches and for the first 10 years after it arrives. The Fund's target year serves as a guide to the relative market risk exposure of the Fund, and your decision to invest in this Fund or another Wells Fargo Advantage Dow Jones Target Date Fund with a different target year and market risk exposure depends upon your individual risk tolerance, among other factors.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The "target year" designated in the Fund's name is the same as the year in the name of the Dow Jones Target 2045 Index℠. Although the individual goals of each investor with respect to a target year vary, an investor may intend for the target year to represent the approximate year in or around which the investor plans to begin withdrawing a portion or all of the investor's investment in the Fund and/or stop making new investments to the Fund. The Fund's goals may not align with the goals of an investor that seeks to begin to withdraw a portion or all of the investor's investment in the Fund significantly before or after the Fund's target year. In this respect, the Fund's goals may more closely align with an investor that intends to begin gradually withdrawing the value of the investor's account on or around the target year. In addition, the Fund will not have its most conservative asset allocation in the Fund's target year, which may not align with an investor's plan for withdrawing the investor's investment. The principal value of an investor's investment in the Fund is not guaranteed, and an investor may experience losses, at any time, including near, at or after the target year designated in the Fund's name. In addition, there is no guarantee that an investor's investment in the Fund will provide income at, and through the years following, the target year in the Fund's name in amounts adequate to meet the investor's goals.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">Currently, the master portfolios in which the Fund invests are the Wells Fargo Advantage Diversified Stock Portfolio, the Wells Fargo Advantage Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio, and the Wells Fargo Advantage Short-Term Investment Portfolio. The Diversified Stock Portfolio and the Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio seek to approximate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the respective equity and fixed income portions of the Dow Jones Target 2045 Index℠ by investing in the securities that comprise the sub-indexes representing the equity and fixed income asset classes, respectively, which securities may include, among others, growth and value stocks, foreign and emerging market equity investments, and securities of smaller companies, as well as debt securities, including corporate bonds, mortgage- and asset-backed securities and U.S. and foreign government obligations. The Diversified Stock Portfolio may also use derivatives, such as stock index futures in order to manage movements of the portfolio against certain indexes. The Diversified Stock Portfolio and the Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio use an optimization process, which seeks to balance the replication of index performance and security transaction costs. The Fund invests in the Short-Term Investment Portfolio to represent the cash component of the Dow Jones Target Date Indexes, but unlike the cash component of the Dow Jones Target 2045 Index℠, the Portfolio does not seek to replicate the Barclays 1-3 Month Treasury-Bill Index. This could result in potential tracking error between the performances of the Fund and the Dow Jones Target 2045 Index℠. By the time the Fund reaches its target year in 2045, its risk exposure will approach 28% of the risk of the global equity market. The Fund will not reach its lowest risk exposure of 20% of the risk of the global equity market until ten years past the Fund's target year. To measure the Fund's risk and the risk of the global equity market, we use a statistical method known as below-mean semi-variance, which quantifies portfolio risk levels by measuring only the below-average outcomes. This method is designed to provide a more useful and nuanced picture of the Fund's risk profile. As of February 28, 2013, the Dow Jones Target 2045 Index℠ included equity, fixed income and money market securities in the weights of 90%, 6% and 4%, respectively, which represent the percentage breakdown of the Fund's assets across the Diversified Stock, Diversified Fixed Income and Short-Term Investment Portfolios, respectively, as of such date, and may change over time. The Fund reserves the right to change its percentage allocation among the Portfolios as we deem necessary to meet its investment objective.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Principal Investment Risks
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">An investment in the Fund may lose money, is not a deposit of Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. or its affiliates, is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other governmental agency, and is primarily subject to the risks briefly summarized below.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Allocation Methodology Risk.</b> A Fund is subject to the risk that the allocation methodology of the Dow Jones Target Date Index will not meet an investor's goals because it will not eliminate the investment volatility that could reduce the amount of funds available for an investor to withdraw when the investor intends to begin to withdraw a portion or all of the investor's investment in the Fund or it may over-emphasize conservative investments designed to ensure capital conservation and current income, which may ultimately prevent the investor from achieving the investor's income and appreciation goals.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Counter-Party Risk.</b> A Fund may incur a loss if the other party to an investment contract, such as a derivative or a repurchase or reverse repurchase agreement, fails to fulfill its contractual obligation to the Fund.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Debt Securities Risk.</b> The issuer of a debt security may fail to pay interest or principal when due, and the value of a debt security may decline if an issuer defaults or if its credit quality deteriorates. Changes in market interest rates may reduce the value of debt securities or reduce the Fund's returns.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Derivatives Risk.</b> The use of derivatives such as futures, options and swap agreements, can lead to losses, including those magnified by leverage, particularly when derivatives are used to enhance return rather than offset risk.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Emerging Markets Risk.</b> Foreign investment risks are typically greater for securities in emerging markets, which can be more vulnerable to recessions, currency volatility, inflation and market failure.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Foreign Investment Risk.</b> Foreign investments face the potential of heightened illiquidity, greater price volatility and adverse effects of political, regulatory, tax, currency, economic or other macroeconomic developments.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Growth Style Investment Risk.</b> Growth stocks may be more expensive relative to the values of other stocks and carry potential for significant volatility and loss.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Index Tracking Risk.</b> The ability to track an index may be affected by, among other things, transaction costs and shareholder purchases and redemptions.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Issuer Risk.</b> The value of a security may decline because of adverse events or circumstances that directly relate to conditions at the issuer or any entity providing it credit or liquidity support.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Leverage Risk.</b> Leverage created by borrowing or certain investments, such as derivatives and reverse repurchase agreements, can diminish the Fund's performance and increase the volatility of the Fund's net asset value.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Liquidity Risk.</b> A security may not be able to be sold at the time desired or without adversely affecting the price.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Management Risk.</b> There is no guarantee of the Fund's performance or that the Fund will meet its objective. The market value of your investment may decline and you may suffer investment loss.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Market Risk.</b> The market price of securities owned by the Fund may rapidly or unpredictably decline due to factors affecting securities markets generally or particular industries.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Mortgage- and Asset-Backed Securities Risk.</b> Mortgage- and asset-backed securities may decline in value when defaults on the underlying mortgage or assets occur and may exhibit additional volatility in periods of changing interest rates. When interest rates decline, the prepayment of mortgages or assets underlying such securities may require the Fund to reinvest such prepaid funds at lower prevailing interest rates, resulting in reduced returns.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Multi-Style Management Risk.</b> The management of the Fund's portfolio using different investment styles can result in higher transaction costs and lower tax efficiency than other funds which adhere to a single investment style.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Regulatory Risk.</b> Changes in government regulations may adversely affect the value of a security. An insufficiently regulated industry or market might also permit inappropriate practices that adversely affect an investment.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Smaller Company Securities Risk.</b> Securities of companies with smaller market capitalizations tend to be more volatile and less liquid than larger company stocks.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Futures Risk.</b> Because the futures utilized by a Fund are standardized and exchange-traded, where the exchange serves as the ultimate counterparty for all contracts, the primary credit risk on futures contracts is the creditworthiness of the exchange itself. Futures are also subject to market risk, interest rate risk (in the case of futures contracts relating to income producing securities) and index tracking risk (in the case of stock index futures).</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>U.S. Government Obligations Risk.</b> U.S. Government obligations may be adversely affected by changes in interest rates, a default by, or decline in the credit quality of, the U.S. Government, and may not be backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. Government.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Value Style Investment Risk.</b> Value stocks may lose value and may be subject to prolonged depressed valuations.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Performance
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing changes in the Fund's performance from year to year. The Fund's average annual total returns are compared to the performance of one or more indices. Past performance before and after taxes is no guarantee of future results. Current month-end performance is available on the Fund's Web site at wellsfargoadvantagefunds.com.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Calendar Year Total Returns as of 12/31 each year Administrator Class</b></p>
Highest Quarter: 2nd Quarter 2009
Lowest Quarter: 4th Quarter 2008
Year-to-date total return as of 3/31/2013 is +7.65%
0.2059-0.2025
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Average Annual Total Returns for the periods ended 12/31/2012 </b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">After-tax returns are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state, local or foreign taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on an investor's tax situation and may differ from those shown, and after-tax returns shown are not relevant to tax-exempt investors or investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) Plans or Individual Retirement Accounts.</p>
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<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Investment Objective
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund seeks to approximate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the Dow Jones Target 2050 Index℠.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Fees and Expenses
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">These tables are intended to help you understand the various costs and expenses you will pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment) </b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Example of Expenses
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The example below is intended to help you compare the costs of investing in the Fund with the costs of investing in other mutual funds. The example assumes a $10,000 initial investment, 5% annual total return, and that operating expenses remain the same as in the tables above. The example also assumes that the Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver shown above will only be in place for the length of the current waiver commitment. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Portfolio Turnover
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or "turns over" its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund's performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 19% of the average value of its portfolio.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Principal Investment Strategies
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">Under normal circumstances, we invest: </p>
<ul><li>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">at least 80% of the Fund's total assets in equity, fixed income and money market securities designed to approximate the holdings and weightings of the securities in the Dow Jones Target 2050 Index℠.</p>
</li></ul>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund is a gateway fund that invests in various master portfolios which in turn invest in a combination of equity, fixed income and money market securities using an asset allocation strategy designed to replicate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the Dow Jones Target 2050 Index℠. Similar to the methodology of the index, the Fund's investment strategy is to gradually reduce the Fund's potential market risk exposure over time by re-allocating the Fund's assets among these major asset classes: equity, fixed income and money market instruments. Generally, the longer the Fund's time horizon, the more of its assets are allocated to equity securities to pursue capital appreciation over the long term. As the Fund's time horizon shortens, it replaces some of its equity holdings with fixed income and money market holdings to reduce market risk and price volatility and thereby generally becomes more conservative in its asset allocation as the Fund's target year approaches and for the first 10 years after it arrives. The Fund's target year serves as a guide to the relative market risk exposure of the Fund, and your decision to invest in this Fund or another Wells Fargo Advantage Dow Jones Target Date Fund with a different target year and market risk exposure depends upon your individual risk tolerance, among other factors.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The "target year" designated in the Fund's name is the same as the year in the name of the Dow Jones Target 2050 Index℠. Although the individual goals of each investor with respect to a target year vary, an investor may intend for the target year to represent the approximate year in or around which the investor plans to begin withdrawing a portion or all of the investor's investment in the Fund and/or stop making new investments to the Fund. The Fund's goals may not align with the goals of an investor that seeks to begin to withdraw a portion or all of the investor's investment in the Fund significantly before or after the Fund's target year. In this respect, the Fund's goals may more closely align with an investor that intends to begin gradually withdrawing the value of the investor's account on or around the target year. In addition, the Fund will not have its most conservative asset allocation in the Fund's target year, which may not align with an investor's plan for withdrawing the investor's investment. The principal value of an investor's investment in the Fund is not guaranteed, and an investor may experience losses, at any time, including near, at or after the target year designated in the Fund's name. In addition, there is no guarantee that an investor's investment in the Fund will provide income at, and through the years following, the target year in the Fund's name in amounts adequate to meet the investor's goals.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">Currently, the master portfolios in which the Fund invests are the Wells Fargo Advantage Diversified Stock Portfolio, the Wells Fargo Advantage Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio, and the Wells Fargo Advantage Short-Term Investment Portfolio. The Diversified Stock Portfolio and the Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio seek to approximate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the respective equity and fixed income portions of the Dow Jones Target 2050 Index℠ by investing in the securities that comprise the sub-indexes representing the equity and fixed income asset classes, respectively, which securities may include, among others, growth and value stocks, foreign and emerging market equity investments, and securities of smaller companies, as well as debt securities, including corporate bonds, mortgage- and asset-backed securities and U.S. and foreign government obligations. The Diversified Stock Portfolio may also use derivatives, such as stock index futures in order to manage movements of the portfolio against certain indexes. The Diversified Stock Portfolio and the Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio use an optimization process, which seeks to balance the replication of index performance and security transaction costs. The Fund invests in the Short-Term Investment Portfolio to represent the cash component of the Dow Jones Target Date Indexes, but unlike the cash component of the Dow Jones Target 2050 Index℠, the Portfolio does not seek to replicate the Barclays 1-3 Month Treasury-Bill Index. This could result in potential tracking error between the performances of the Fund and the Dow Jones Target 2050 Index℠. By the time the Fund reaches its target year in 2050, its risk exposure will approach 28% of the risk of the global equity market. The Fund will not reach its lowest risk exposure of 20% of the risk of the global equity market until ten years past the Fund's target year. To measure the Fund's risk and the risk of the global equity market, we use a statistical method known as below-mean semi-variance, which quantifies portfolio risk levels by measuring only the below-average outcomes. This method is designed to provide a more useful and nuanced picture of the Fund's risk profile. As of February 28, 2013, the Dow Jones Target 2050 Index℠ included equity, fixed income and money market securities in the weights of 90%, 6% and 4%, respectively, which represent the percentage breakdown of the Fund's assets across the Diversified Stock, Diversified Fixed Income and Short-Term Investment Portfolios, respectively, as of such date, and may change over time. The Fund reserves the right to change its percentage allocation among the Portfolios as we deem necessary to meet its investment objective.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Principal Investment Risks
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">An investment in the Fund may lose money, is not a deposit of Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. or its affiliates, is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other governmental agency, and is primarily subject to the risks briefly summarized below.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Allocation Methodology Risk.</b> A Fund is subject to the risk that the allocation methodology of the Dow Jones Target Date Index will not meet an investor's goals because it will not eliminate the investment volatility that could reduce the amount of funds available for an investor to withdraw when the investor intends to begin to withdraw a portion or all of the investor's investment in the Fund or it may over-emphasize conservative investments designed to ensure capital conservation and current income, which may ultimately prevent the investor from achieving the investor's income and appreciation goals.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Counter-Party Risk.</b> A Fund may incur a loss if the other party to an investment contract, such as a derivative or a repurchase or reverse repurchase agreement, fails to fulfill its contractual obligation to the Fund.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Debt Securities Risk.</b> The issuer of a debt security may fail to pay interest or principal when due, and the value of a debt security may decline if an issuer defaults or if its credit quality deteriorates. Changes in market interest rates may reduce the value of debt securities or reduce the Fund's returns.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Derivatives Risk.</b> The use of derivatives such as futures, options and swap agreements, can lead to losses, including those magnified by leverage, particularly when derivatives are used to enhance return rather than offset risk.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Emerging Markets Risk.</b> Foreign investment risks are typically greater for securities in emerging markets, which can be more vulnerable to recessions, currency volatility, inflation and market failure.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Foreign Investment Risk.</b> Foreign investments face the potential of heightened illiquidity, greater price volatility and adverse effects of political, regulatory, tax, currency, economic or other macroeconomic developments.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Growth Style Investment Risk.</b> Growth stocks may be more expensive relative to the values of other stocks and carry potential for significant volatility and loss.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Index Tracking Risk.</b> The ability to track an index may be affected by, among other things, transaction costs and shareholder purchases and redemptions.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Issuer Risk.</b> The value of a security may decline because of adverse events or circumstances that directly relate to conditions at the issuer or any entity providing it credit or liquidity support.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Leverage Risk.</b> Leverage created by borrowing or certain investments, such as derivatives and reverse repurchase agreements, can diminish the Fund's performance and increase the volatility of the Fund's net asset value.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Liquidity Risk.</b> A security may not be able to be sold at the time desired or without adversely affecting the price.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Management Risk.</b> There is no guarantee of the Fund's performance or that the Fund will meet its objective. The market value of your investment may decline and you may suffer investment loss.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Market Risk.</b> The market price of securities owned by the Fund may rapidly or unpredictably decline due to factors affecting securities markets generally or particular industries.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Mortgage- and Asset-Backed Securities Risk.</b> Mortgage- and asset-backed securities may decline in value when defaults on the underlying mortgage or assets occur and may exhibit additional volatility in periods of changing interest rates. When interest rates decline, the prepayment of mortgages or assets underlying such securities may require the Fund to reinvest such prepaid funds at lower prevailing interest rates, resulting in reduced returns.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Multi-Style Management Risk.</b> The management of the Fund's portfolio using different investment styles can result in higher transaction costs and lower tax efficiency than other funds which adhere to a single investment style.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Regulatory Risk.</b> Changes in government regulations may adversely affect the value of a security. An insufficiently regulated industry or market might also permit inappropriate practices that adversely affect an investment.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Smaller Company Securities Risk.</b> Securities of companies with smaller market capitalizations tend to be more volatile and less liquid than larger company stocks.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Futures Risk.</b> Because the futures utilized by a Fund are standardized and exchange-traded, where the exchange serves as the ultimate counterparty for all contracts, the primary credit risk on futures contracts is the creditworthiness of the exchange itself. Futures are also subject to market risk, interest rate risk (in the case of futures contracts relating to income producing securities) and index tracking risk (in the case of stock index futures).</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>U.S. Government Obligations Risk.</b> U.S. Government obligations may be adversely affected by changes in interest rates, a default by, or decline in the credit quality of, the U.S. Government, and may not be backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. Government.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Value Style Investment Risk.</b> Value stocks may lose value and may be subject to prolonged depressed valuations.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Performance
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing changes in the Fund's performance from year to year. The Fund's average annual total returns are compared to the performance of one or more indices. Past performance before and after taxes is no guarantee of future results. Current month-end performance is available on the Fund's Web site at wellsfargoadvantagefunds.com.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Calendar Year Total Returns as of 12/31 each year Administrator Class</b></p>
Highest Quarter: 2nd Quarter 2009
Lowest Quarter: 4th Quarter 2008
Year-to-date total return as of 3/31/2013 is +7.56%
0.2082-0.2064
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Average Annual Total Returns for the periods ended 12/31/2012 </b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">After-tax returns are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state, local or foreign taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on an investor's tax situation and may differ from those shown, and after-tax returns shown are not relevant to tax-exempt investors or investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) Plans or Individual Retirement Accounts.</p>
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<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Investment Objective
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund seeks to approximate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the Dow Jones Target Today Index℠.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Fees and Expenses
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">These tables are intended to help you understand the various costs and expenses you will pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment) </b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Example of Expenses
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The example below is intended to help you compare the costs of investing in the Fund with the costs of investing in other mutual funds. The example assumes a $10,000 initial investment, 5% annual total return, and that operating expenses remain the same as in the tables above. The example also assumes that the Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver shown above will only be in place for the length of the current waiver commitment. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Portfolio Turnover
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or "turns over" its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund's performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 39% of the average value of its portfolio.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Principal Investment Strategies
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">Under normal circumstances, we invest: </p>
<ul><li>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">at least 80% of the Fund's total assets in equity, fixed income and money market securities designed to approximate the holdings and weightings of the securities in the Dow Jones Target Today Index℠.</p>
</li></ul>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund is a gateway fund that invests in various master portfolios which in turn invest in a combination of equity, fixed income and money market securities using an asset allocation strategy designed to replicate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the Dow Jones Target Today Index℠. Similar to the methodology of the index, the Fund's investment strategy is to maintain a relatively fixed level of potential market risk exposure over time by re-allocating the Fund's assets among these major asset classes: equity, fixed income and money market instruments. The Wells Fargo Advantage Dow Jones Target Today Fund is the most conservative Fund within the Wells Fargo Advantage Dow Jones Target Date Funds series. Within the series, each Fund's target year serves as a guide to the relative market risk exposure of the Fund's allocation of assets among equity, fixed income and money market instruments asset classes, and your decision to invest in this or another Wells Fargo Advantage Dow Jones Target Date Fund with a different target year and market risk exposure depends upon your individual risk tolerance, among other factors.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The "Today" designation in the Fund's name corresponds to the naming convention of the Dow Jones Target Today Index℠, an index designed to represent the targeted level of relative market risk exposure 10 years past a dated Fund's targeted year. The principal value of an investor's investment in the Fund is not guaranteed, and an investor may experience losses, at any time. In addition, there is no guarantee that an investor's investment in the Fund will provide income adequate to meet the investor's goals.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">Currently, the master portfolios in which the Fund invests are the Wells Fargo Advantage Diversified Stock Portfolio, the Wells Fargo Advantage Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio, and the Wells Fargo Advantage Short-Term Investment Portfolio. The Diversified Stock Portfolio and the Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio seek to approximate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the respective equity and fixed income portions of the Dow Jones Target Today Index℠ by investing in the securities that comprise the sub-indexes representing the equity and fixed income asset classes, respectively, which securities may include, among others, growth and value stocks, foreign and emerging market equity investments, and securities of smaller companies, as well as debt securities, including corporate bonds, mortgage- and asset-backed securities and U.S. and foreign government obligations. The Diversified Stock Portfolio may also use derivatives, such as stock index futures in order to manage movements of the portfolio against certain indexes. The Diversified Stock Portfolio and the Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio use an optimization process, which seeks to balance the replication of index performance and security transaction costs. The Fund invests in the Short-Term Investment Portfolio to represent the cash component of the Dow Jones Target Date Indexes, but unlike the cash component of the Dow Jones Target Today Index℠, the Portfolio does not seek to replicate the Barclays 1-3 Month Treasury-Bill Index. This could result in potential tracking error between the performances of the Fund and the Dow Jones Target Today Index℠. As of February 28, 2013, the Dow Jones Target Today Index℠ included equity, fixed income and money market securities in the weights of 15%, 80% and 5%, respectively, which represent the percentage breakdown of the Fund's assets across the Diversified Stock, Diversified Fixed Income and Short-Term Investment Portfolios, respectively, as of such date, and may change over time. The Fund reserves the right to change its percentage allocation among the Portfolios as we deem necessary to meet its investment objective.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Principal Investment Risks
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">An investment in the Fund may lose money, is not a deposit of Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. or its affiliates, is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other governmental agency, and is primarily subject to the risks briefly summarized below.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Allocation Methodology Risk.</b> A Fund is subject to the risk that the allocation methodology of the Dow Jones Target Date Index will not meet an investor's goals because it will not eliminate the investment volatility that could reduce the amount of funds available for an investor to withdraw when the investor intends to begin to withdraw a portion or all of the investor's investment in the Fund or it may over-emphasize conservative investments designed to ensure capital conservation and current income, which may ultimately prevent the investor from achieving the investor's income and appreciation goals.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Counter-Party Risk.</b> A Fund may incur a loss if the other party to an investment contract, such as a derivative or a repurchase or reverse repurchase agreement, fails to fulfill its contractual obligation to the Fund.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Debt Securities Risk.</b> The issuer of a debt security may fail to pay interest or principal when due, and the value of a debt security may decline if an issuer defaults or if its credit quality deteriorates. Changes in market interest rates may reduce the value of debt securities or reduce the Fund's returns.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Derivatives Risk.</b> The use of derivatives such as futures, options and swap agreements, can lead to losses, including those magnified by leverage, particularly when derivatives are used to enhance return rather than offset risk.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Emerging Markets Risk.</b> Foreign investment risks are typically greater for securities in emerging markets, which can be more vulnerable to recessions, currency volatility, inflation and market failure.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Foreign Investment Risk.</b> Foreign investments face the potential of heightened illiquidity, greater price volatility and adverse effects of political, regulatory, tax, currency, economic or other macroeconomic developments.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Growth Style Investment Risk.</b> Growth stocks may be more expensive relative to the values of other stocks and carry potential for significant volatility and loss.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Index Tracking Risk.</b> The ability to track an index may be affected by, among other things, transaction costs and shareholder purchases and redemptions.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Issuer Risk.</b> The value of a security may decline because of adverse events or circumstances that directly relate to conditions at the issuer or any entity providing it credit or liquidity support.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Leverage Risk.</b> Leverage created by borrowing or certain investments, such as derivatives and reverse repurchase agreements, can diminish the Fund's performance and increase the volatility of the Fund's net asset value.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Liquidity Risk.</b> A security may not be able to be sold at the time desired or without adversely affecting the price.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Management Risk.</b> There is no guarantee of the Fund's performance or that the Fund will meet its objective. The market value of your investment may decline and you may suffer investment loss.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Market Risk.</b> The market price of securities owned by the Fund may rapidly or unpredictably decline due to factors affecting securities markets generally or particular industries.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Mortgage- and Asset-Backed Securities Risk.</b> Mortgage- and asset-backed securities may decline in value when defaults on the underlying mortgage or assets occur and may exhibit additional volatility in periods of changing interest rates. When interest rates decline, the prepayment of mortgages or assets underlying such securities may require the Fund to reinvest such prepaid funds at lower prevailing interest rates, resulting in reduced returns.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Multi-Style Management Risk.</b> The management of the Fund's portfolio using different investment styles can result in higher transaction costs and lower tax efficiency than other funds which adhere to a single investment style.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Regulatory Risk.</b> Changes in government regulations may adversely affect the value of a security. An insufficiently regulated industry or market might also permit inappropriate practices that adversely affect an investment.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Smaller Company Securities Risk.</b> Securities of companies with smaller market capitalizations tend to be more volatile and less liquid than larger company stocks.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Futures Risk.</b> Because the futures utilized by a Fund are standardized and exchange-traded, where the exchange serves as the ultimate counterparty for all contracts, the primary credit risk on futures contracts is the creditworthiness of the exchange itself. Futures are also subject to market risk, interest rate risk (in the case of futures contracts relating to income producing securities) and index tracking risk (in the case of stock index futures).</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>U.S. Government Obligations Risk.</b> U.S. Government obligations may be adversely affected by changes in interest rates, a default by, or decline in the credit quality of, the U.S. Government, and may not be backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. Government.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Value Style Investment Risk.</b> Value stocks may lose value and may be subject to prolonged depressed valuations.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Performance
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing changes in the Fund's performance from year to year. The Fund's average annual total returns are compared to the performance of one or more indices. Past performance before and after taxes is no guarantee of future results. Current month-end performance is available on the Fund's Web site at wellsfargoadvantagefunds.com.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Calendar Year Total Returns as of 12/31 each year Administrator Class</b></p>
<b>Highest Quarter:</b> 2nd Quarter 2003
<b>Lowest Quarter:</b> 3rd Quarter 2008
Year-to-date total return as of 3/31/2013 is +0.18%
0.0721-0.0332
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Average Annual Total Returns for the periods ended 12/31/2012 </b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">After-tax returns are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state, local or foreign taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on an investor's tax situation and may differ from those shown, and after-tax returns shown are not relevant to tax-exempt investors or investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) Plans or Individual Retirement Accounts.</p>
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<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Investment Objective
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund seeks to approximate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the Dow Jones Target 2055 Index℠.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Fees and Expenses
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">These tables are intended to help you understand the various costs and expenses you will pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment) </b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Example of Expenses
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The example below is intended to help you compare the costs of investing in the Fund with the costs of investing in other mutual funds. The example assumes a $10,000 initial investment, 5% annual total return, and that operating expenses remain the same as in the tables above. The example also assumes that the Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver shown above will only be in place for the length of the current waiver commitment. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Portfolio Turnover
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or "turns over" its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund's performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 19% of the average value of its portfolio.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Principal Investment Strategies
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">Under normal circumstances, we invest: </p>
<ul><li>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">at least 80% of the Fund's total assets in equity, fixed income and money market securities designed to approximate the holdings and weightings of the securities in the Dow Jones Target 2055 Index℠.</p>
</li></ul>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund is a gateway fund that invests in various master portfolios which in turn invest in a combination of equity, fixed income and money market securities using an asset allocation strategy designed to replicate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the Dow Jones Target 2055 Index℠. Similar to the methodology of the index, the Fund's investment strategy is to gradually reduce the Fund's potential market risk exposure over time by re-allocating the Fund's assets among these major asset classes: equity, fixed income and money market instruments. Generally, the longer the Fund's time horizon, the more of its assets are allocated to equity securities to pursue capital appreciation over the long term. As the Fund's time horizon shortens, it replaces some of its equity holdings with fixed income and money market holdings to reduce market risk and price volatility and thereby generally becomes more conservative in its asset allocation as the Fund's target year approaches and for the first 10 years after it arrives. The Fund's target year serves as a guide to the relative market risk exposure of the Fund, and your decision to invest in this Fund or another Wells Fargo Advantage Dow Jones Target Date Fund with a different target year and market risk exposure depends upon your individual risk tolerance, among other factors.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The "target year" designated in the Fund's name is the same as the year in the name of the Dow Jones Target 2055 Index℠. Although the individual goals of each investor with respect to a target year vary, an investor may intend for the target year to represent the approximate year in or around which the investor plans to begin withdrawing a portion or all of the investor's investment in the Fund and/or stop making new investments to the Fund. The Fund's goals may not align with the goals of an investor that seeks to begin to withdraw a portion or all of the investor's investment in the Fund significantly before or after the Fund's target year. In this respect, the Fund's goals may more closely align with an investor that intends to begin gradually withdrawing the value of the investor's account on or around the target year. In addition, the Fund will not have its most conservative asset allocation in the Fund's target year, which may not align with an investor's plan for withdrawing the investor's investment. The principal value of an investor's investment in the Fund is not guaranteed, and an investor may experience losses, at any time, including near, at or after the target year designated in the Fund's name. In addition, there is no guarantee that an investor's investment in the Fund will provide income at, and through the years following, the target year in the Fund's name in amounts adequate to meet the investor's goals.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">Currently, the master portfolios in which the Fund invests are the Wells Fargo Advantage Diversified Stock Portfolio, the Wells Fargo Advantage Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio, and the Wells Fargo Advantage Short-Term Investment Portfolio. The Diversified Stock Portfolio and the Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio seek to approximate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the respective equity and fixed income portions of the Dow Jones Target 2055 Index℠ by investing in the securities that comprise the sub-indexes representing the equity and fixed income asset classes, respectively, which securities may include, among others, growth and value stocks, foreign and emerging market equity investments, and securities of smaller companies, as well as debt securities, including corporate bonds, mortgage- and asset-backed securities and U.S. and foreign government obligations. The Diversified Stock Portfolio may also use derivatives, such as stock index futures in order to manage movements of the portfolio against certain indexes. The Diversified Stock Portfolio and the Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio use an optimization process, which seeks to balance the replication of index performance and security transaction costs. The Fund invests in the Short-Term Investment Portfolio to represent the cash component of the Dow Jones Target Date Indexes, but unlike the cash component of the Dow Jones Target 2055 Index℠, the Portfolio does not seek to replicate the Barclays 1-3 Month Treasury-Bill Index. This could result in potential tracking error between the performances of the Fund and the Dow Jones Target 2055 Index℠. By the time the Fund reaches its target year in 2055, its risk exposure will approach 28% of the risk of the global equity market. The Fund will not reach its lowest risk exposure of 20% of the risk of the global equity market until ten years past the Fund's target year. To measure the Fund's risk and the risk of the global equity market, we use a statistical method known as below-mean semi-variance, which quantifies portfolio risk levels by measuring only the below-average outcomes. This method is designed to provide a more useful and nuanced picture of the Fund's risk profile. As of February 28, 2013, the Dow Jones Target 2055 Index℠ included equity, fixed income and money market securities in the weights of 90%, 6% and 4%, respectively, which represent the percentage breakdown of the Fund's assets across the Diversified Stock, Diversified Fixed Income and Short-Term Investment Portfolios, respectively, as of such date, and may change over time. The Fund reserves the right to change its percentage allocation among the Portfolios as we deem necessary to meet its investment objective.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Principal Investment Risks
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">An investment in the Fund may lose money, is not a deposit of Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. or its affiliates, is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other governmental agency, and is primarily subject to the risks briefly summarized below.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Allocation Methodology Risk.</b> A Fund is subject to the risk that the allocation methodology of the Dow Jones Target Date Index will not meet an investor's goals because it will not eliminate the investment volatility that could reduce the amount of funds available for an investor to withdraw when the investor intends to begin to withdraw a portion or all of the investor's investment in the Fund or it may over-emphasize conservative investments designed to ensure capital conservation and current income, which may ultimately prevent the investor from achieving the investor's income and appreciation goals.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Counter-Party Risk.</b> A Fund may incur a loss if the other party to an investment contract, such as a derivative or a repurchase or reverse repurchase agreement, fails to fulfill its contractual obligation to the Fund.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Debt Securities Risk.</b> The issuer of a debt security may fail to pay interest or principal when due, and the value of a debt security may decline if an issuer defaults or if its credit quality deteriorates. Changes in market interest rates may reduce the value of debt securities or reduce the Fund's returns.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Derivatives Risk.</b> The use of derivatives such as futures, options and swap agreements, can lead to losses, including those magnified by leverage, particularly when derivatives are used to enhance return rather than offset risk.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Emerging Markets Risk.</b> Foreign investment risks are typically greater for securities in emerging markets, which can be more vulnerable to recessions, currency volatility, inflation and market failure.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Foreign Investment Risk.</b> Foreign investments face the potential of heightened illiquidity, greater price volatility and adverse effects of political, regulatory, tax, currency, economic or other macroeconomic developments.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Growth Style Investment Risk.</b> Growth stocks may be more expensive relative to the values of other stocks and carry potential for significant volatility and loss.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Index Tracking Risk.</b> The ability to track an index may be affected by, among other things, transaction costs and shareholder purchases and redemptions.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Issuer Risk.</b> The value of a security may decline because of adverse events or circumstances that directly relate to conditions at the issuer or any entity providing it credit or liquidity support.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Leverage Risk.</b> Leverage created by borrowing or certain investments, such as derivatives and reverse repurchase agreements, can diminish the Fund's performance and increase the volatility of the Fund's net asset value.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Liquidity Risk.</b> A security may not be able to be sold at the time desired or without adversely affecting the price.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Management Risk.</b> There is no guarantee of the Fund's performance or that the Fund will meet its objective. The market value of your investment may decline and you may suffer investment loss.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Market Risk.</b> The market price of securities owned by the Fund may rapidly or unpredictably decline due to factors affecting securities markets generally or particular industries.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Mortgage- and Asset-Backed Securities Risk.</b> Mortgage- and asset-backed securities may decline in value when defaults on the underlying mortgage or assets occur and may exhibit additional volatility in periods of changing interest rates. When interest rates decline, the prepayment of mortgages or assets underlying such securities may require the Fund to reinvest such prepaid funds at lower prevailing interest rates, resulting in reduced returns.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Multi-Style Management Risk.</b> The management of the Fund's portfolio using different investment styles can result in higher transaction costs and lower tax efficiency than other funds which adhere to a single investment style.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Regulatory Risk.</b> Changes in government regulations may adversely affect the value of a security. An insufficiently regulated industry or market might also permit inappropriate practices that adversely affect an investment.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Smaller Company Securities Risk.</b> Securities of companies with smaller market capitalizations tend to be more volatile and less liquid than larger company stocks.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Futures Risk.</b> Because the futures utilized by a Fund are standardized and exchange-traded, where the exchange serves as the ultimate counterparty for all contracts, the primary credit risk on futures contracts is the creditworthiness of the exchange itself. Futures are also subject to market risk, interest rate risk (in the case of futures contracts relating to income producing securities) and index tracking risk (in the case of stock index futures).</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>U.S. Government Obligations Risk.</b> U.S. Government obligations may be adversely affected by changes in interest rates, a default by, or decline in the credit quality of, the U.S. Government, and may not be backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. Government.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Value Style Investment Risk.</b> Value stocks may lose value and may be subject to prolonged depressed valuations.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Performance
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing changes in the Fund's performance from year to year. The Fund's average annual total returns are compared to the performance of one or more indices. Past performance before and after taxes is no guarantee of future results. Current month-end performance is available on the Fund's Web site at wellsfargoadvantagefunds.com.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Calendar Year Total Returns as of 12/31 each year Administrator Class</b></p>
Highest Quarter: 1st Quarter 2012
Lowest Quarter: 2nd Quarter 2012
Year-to-date total return as of 3/31/2013 is +7.59%
0.1115-0.0436
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Average Annual Total Returns for the periods ended 12/31/2012 </b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">After-tax returns are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state, local or foreign taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on an investor's tax situation and may differ from those shown, and after-tax returns shown are not relevant to tax-exempt investors or investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) Plans or Individual Retirement Accounts.</p>
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<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Investment Objective
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund seeks to approximate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the Dow Jones Target 2010 Index℠.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Fees and Expenses
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">These tables are intended to help you understand the various costs and expenses you will pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment) </b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Example of Expenses
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The example below is intended to help you compare the costs of investing in the Fund with the costs of investing in other mutual funds. The example assumes a $10,000 initial investment, 5% annual total return, and that operating expenses remain the same as in the tables above. The example also assumes that the Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver shown above will only be in place for the length of the current waiver commitment. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Portfolio Turnover
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or "turns over" its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund's performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 37% of the average value of its portfolio.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Principal Investment Strategies
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">Under normal circumstances, we invest:</p>
<ul><li>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">at least 80% of the Fund's total assets in equity, fixed income and money market securities designed to approximate the holdings and weightings of the securities in the Dow Jones Target 2010 Index℠.</p>
</li></ul>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund is a gateway fund that invests in various master portfolios which in turn invest in a combination of equity, fixed income and money market securities using an asset allocation strategy designed to replicate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the Dow Jones Target 2010 Index℠. Similar to the methodology of the index, the Fund's investment strategy is to gradually reduce the Fund's potential market risk exposure over time by re-allocating the Fund's assets among these major asset classes: equity, fixed income and money market instruments. Generally, the longer the Fund's time horizon, the more of its assets are allocated to equity securities to pursue capital appreciation over the long term. As the Fund's time horizon shortens, it replaces some of its equity holdings with fixed income and money market holdings to reduce market risk and price volatility and thereby generally becomes more conservative in its asset allocation as the Fund's target year approaches and for the first 10 years after it arrives. The Fund's target year serves as a guide to the relative market risk exposure of the Fund, and your decision to invest in this Fund or another Wells Fargo Advantage Dow Jones Target Date Fund with a different target year and market risk exposure depends upon your individual risk tolerance, among other factors.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The "target year" designated in the Fund's name is the same as the year in the name of the Dow Jones Target 2010 Index℠. Although the individual goals of each investor with respect to a target year vary, an investor may intend for the target year to represent the approximate year in or around which the investor plans to begin withdrawing a portion or all of the investor's investment in the Fund and/or stop making new investments to the Fund. The Fund's goals may not align with the goals of an investor that seeks to begin to withdraw a portion or all of the investor's investment in the Fund significantly before or after the Fund's target year. In this respect, the Fund's goals may more closely align with an investor that intends to begin gradually withdrawing the value of the investor's account on or around the target year. In addition, the Fund will not have its most conservative asset allocation in the Fund's target year, which may not align with an investor's plan for withdrawing the investor's investment. The principal value of an investor's investment in the Fund is not guaranteed, and an investor may experience losses, at any time, including near, at or after the target year designated in the Fund's name. In addition, there is no guarantee that an investor's investment in the Fund will provide income at, and through the years following, the target year in the Fund's name in amounts adequate to meet the investor's goals.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">Currently, the master portfolios in which the Fund invests are the Wells Fargo Advantage Diversified Stock Portfolio, the Wells Fargo Advantage Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio, and the Wells Fargo Advantage Short-Term Investment Portfolio. The Diversified Stock Portfolio and the Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio seek to approximate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the respective equity and fixed income portions of the Dow Jones Target 2010 Index℠ by investing in the securities that comprise the sub-indexes representing the equity and fixed income asset classes, respectively, which securities may include, among others, growth and value stocks, foreign and emerging market equity investments, and securities of smaller companies, as well as debt securities, including corporate bonds, mortgage- and asset-backed securities and U.S. and foreign government obligations. The Diversified Stock Portfolio may also use derivatives, such as stock index futures in order to manage movements of the portfolio against certain indexes. The Diversified Stock Portfolio and the Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio use an optimization process, which seeks to balance the replication of index performance and security transaction costs. The Fund invests in the Short-Term Investment Portfolio to represent the cash component of the Dow Jones Target Date Indexes, but unlike the cash component of the Dow Jones Target 2010 Index℠, the Portfolio does not seek to replicate the Barclays 1-3 Month Treasury-Bill Index. This could result in potential tracking error between the performances of the Fund and the Dow Jones Target 2010 Index℠. As the Fund has now reached its target year, its risk exposure approaches 27% of the risk of the global equity market. The Fund will not reach its lowest risk exposure of 20% of the risk of the global equity market until ten years past the Fund's target year. To measure the Fund's risk and the risk of the global equity market, we use a statistical method known as below-mean semi-variance, which quantifies portfolio risk levels by measuring only the below-average outcomes. This method is designed to provide a more useful and nuanced picture of the Fund's risk profile. As of February 28, 2013, the Dow Jones Target 2010 Index℠ included equity, fixed income and money market securities in the weights of 23%, 73% and 4%, respectively, which represent the percentage breakdown of the Fund's assets across the Diversified Stock, Diversified Fixed Income and Short-Term Investment Portfolios, respectively, as of such date, and may change over time. The Fund reserves the right to change its percentage allocation among the Portfolios as we deem necessary to meet its investment objective.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Principal Investment Risks
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">An investment in the Fund may lose money, is not a deposit of Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. or its affiliates, is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other governmental agency, and is primarily subject to the risks briefly summarized below.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Allocation Methodology Risk.</b> A Fund is subject to the risk that the allocation methodology of the Dow Jones Target Date Index will not meet an investor's goals because it will not eliminate the investment volatility that could reduce the amount of funds available for an investor to withdraw when the investor intends to begin to withdraw a portion or all of the investor's investment in the Fund or it may over-emphasize conservative investments designed to ensure capital conservation and current income, which may ultimately prevent the investor from achieving the investor's income and appreciation goals.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Counter-Party Risk.</b> A Fund may incur a loss if the other party to an investment contract, such as a derivative or a repurchase or reverse repurchase agreement, fails to fulfill its contractual obligation to the Fund.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Debt Securities Risk.</b> The issuer of a debt security may fail to pay interest or principal when due, and the value of a debt security may decline if an issuer defaults or if its credit quality deteriorates. Changes in market interest rates may reduce the value of debt securities or reduce the Fund's returns.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Derivatives Risk.</b> The use of derivatives such as futures, options and swap agreements, can lead to losses, including those magnified by leverage, particularly when derivatives are used to enhance return rather than offset risk.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Emerging Markets Risk.</b> Foreign investment risks are typically greater for securities in emerging markets, which can be more vulnerable to recessions, currency volatility, inflation and market failure.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Foreign Investment Risk.</b> Foreign investments face the potential of heightened illiquidity, greater price volatility and adverse effects of political, regulatory, tax, currency, economic or other macroeconomic developments.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Futures Risk.</b> Because the futures utilized by a Fund are standardized and exchange-traded, where the exchange serves as the ultimate counterparty for all contracts, the primary credit risk on futures contracts is the creditworthiness of the exchange itself. Futures are also subject to market risk, interest rate risk (in the case of futures contracts relating to income producing securities) and index tracking risk (in the case of stock index futures).</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Growth Style Investment Risk.</b> Growth stocks may be more expensive relative to the values of other stocks and carry potential for significant volatility and loss.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Index Tracking Risk.</b> The ability to track an index may be affected by, among other things, transaction costs and shareholder purchases and redemptions.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Issuer Risk.</b> The value of a security may decline because of adverse events or circumstances that directly relate to conditions at the issuer or any entity providing it credit or liquidity support.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Leverage Risk.</b> Leverage created by borrowing or certain investments, such as derivatives and reverse repurchase agreements, can diminish the Fund's performance and increase the volatility of the Fund's net asset value.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Liquidity Risk.</b> A security may not be able to be sold at the time desired or without adversely affecting the price.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Management Risk.</b> There is no guarantee of the Fund's performance or that the Fund will meet its objective. The market value of your investment may decline and you may suffer investment loss.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Market Risk.</b> The market price of securities owned by the Fund may rapidly or unpredictably decline due to factors affecting securities markets generally or particular industries.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Mortgage- and Asset-Backed Securities Risk.</b> Mortgage- and asset-backed securities may decline in value when defaults on the underlying mortgage or assets occur and may exhibit additional volatility in periods of changing interest rates. When interest rates decline, the prepayment of mortgages or assets underlying such securities may require the Fund to reinvest such prepaid funds at lower prevailing interest rates, resulting in reduced returns.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Multi-Style Management Risk.</b> The management of the Fund's portfolio using different investment styles can result in higher transaction costs and lower tax efficiency than other funds which adhere to a single investment style.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Regulatory Risk.</b> Changes in government regulations may adversely affect the value of a security. An insufficiently regulated industry or market might also permit inappropriate practices that adversely affect an investment.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Smaller Company Securities Risk.</b> Securities of companies with smaller market capitalizations tend to be more volatile and less liquid than larger company stocks.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>U.S. Government Obligations Risk.</b> U.S. Government obligations may be adversely affected by changes in interest rates, a default by, or decline in the credit quality of, the U.S. Government, and may not be backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. Government.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Value Style Investment Risk.</b> Value stocks may lose value and may be subject to prolonged depressed valuations.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Performance
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing changes in the Fund's performance from year to year. The Fund's average annual total returns are compared to the performance of one or more indices. Past performance before and after taxes is no guarantee of future results. Current month-end performance is available on the Fund's Web site at wellsfargoadvantagefunds.com.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Calendar Year Total Returns as of 12/31 each year Investor Class</b></p>
Highest Quarter: 2nd Quarter 2003
Lowest Quarter: 3rd Quarter 2008
Year-to-date total return as of 3/31/2013 is +0.82%
0.093-0.0548
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Average Annual Total Returns for the periods ended 12/31/2012 </b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">After-tax returns are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state, local or foreign taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on an investor's tax situation and may differ from those shown, and after-tax returns shown are not relevant to tax-exempt investors or investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) Plans or Individual Retirement Accounts.</p>
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<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Investment Objective
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund seeks to approximate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the Dow Jones Target 2015 Index℠.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Fees and Expenses
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">These tables are intended to help you understand the various costs and expenses you will pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment) </b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Example of Expenses
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The example below is intended to help you compare the costs of investing in the Fund with the costs of investing in other mutual funds. The example assumes a $10,000 initial investment, 5% annual total return, and that operating expenses remain the same as in the tables above. The example also assumes that the Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver shown above will only be in place for the length of the current waiver commitment. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Portfolio Turnover
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or "turns over" its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund's performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 35% of the average value of its portfolio.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Principal Investment Strategies
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">Under normal circumstances, we invest: </p>
<ul><li>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">at least 80% of the Fund's total assets in equity, fixed income and money market securities designed to approximate the holdings and weightings of the securities in the Dow Jones Target 2015 Index℠.</p>
</li></ul>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund is a gateway fund that invests in various master portfolios which in turn invest in a combination of equity, fixed income and money market securities using an asset allocation strategy designed to replicate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the Dow Jones Target 2015 Index℠. Similar to the methodology of the index, the Fund's investment strategy is to gradually reduce the Fund's potential market risk exposure over time by re-allocating the Fund's assets among these major asset classes: equity, fixed income and money market instruments. Generally, the longer the Fund's time horizon, the more of its assets are allocated to equity securities to pursue capital appreciation over the long term. As the Fund's time horizon shortens, it replaces some of its equity holdings with fixed income and money market holdings to reduce market risk and price volatility and thereby generally becomes more conservative in its asset allocation as the Fund's target year approaches and for the first 10 years after it arrives. The Fund's target year serves as a guide to the relative market risk exposure of the Fund, and your decision to invest in this Fund or another Wells Fargo Advantage Dow Jones Target Date Fund with a different target year and market risk exposure depends upon your individual risk tolerance, among other factors.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The "target year" designated in the Fund's name is the same as the year in the name of the Dow Jones Target 2015 Index℠. Although the individual goals of each investor with respect to a target year vary, an investor may intend for the target year to represent the approximate year in or around which the investor plans to begin withdrawing a portion or all of the investor's investment in the Fund and/or stop making new investments to the Fund. The Fund's goals may not align with the goals of an investor that seeks to begin to withdraw a portion or all of the investor's investment in the Fund significantly before or after the Fund's target year. In this respect, the Fund's goals may more closely align with an investor that intends to begin gradually withdrawing the value of the investor's account on or around the target year. In addition, the Fund will not have its most conservative asset allocation in the Fund's target year, which may not align with an investor's plan for withdrawing the investor's investment. The principal value of an investor's investment in the Fund is not guaranteed, and an investor may experience losses, at any time, including near, at or after the target year designated in the Fund's name. In addition, there is no guarantee that an investor's investment in the Fund will provide income at, and through the years following, the target year in the Fund's name in amounts adequate to meet the investor's goals.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">Currently, the master portfolios in which the Fund invests are the Wells Fargo Advantage Diversified Stock Portfolio, the Wells Fargo Advantage Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio, and the Wells Fargo Advantage Short-Term Investment Portfolio. The Diversified Stock Portfolio and the Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio seek to approximate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the respective equity and fixed income portions of the Dow Jones Target 2015 Index℠ by investing in the securities that comprise the sub-indexes representing the equity and fixed income asset classes, respectively, which securities may include, among others, growth and value stocks, foreign and emerging market equity investments, and securities of smaller companies, as well as debt securities, including corporate bonds, mortgage- and asset-backed securities and U.S. and foreign government obligations. The Diversified Stock Portfolio may also use derivatives, such as stock index futures in order to manage movements of the portfolio against certain indexes. The Diversified Stock Portfolio and the Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio use an optimization process, which seeks to balance the replication of index performance and security transaction costs. The Fund invests in the Short-Term Investment Portfolio to represent the cash component of the Dow Jones Target Date Indexes, but unlike the cash component of the Dow Jones Target 2015 Index℠, the Portfolio does not seek to replicate the Barclays 1-3 Month Treasury-Bill Index. This could result in potential tracking error between the performances of the Fund and the Dow Jones Target 2015 Index℠. By the time the Fund reaches its target year in 2015, its risk exposure will approach 28% of the risk of the global equity market. The Fund will not reach its lowest risk exposure of 20% of the risk of the global equity market until ten years past the Fund's target year. To measure the Fund's risk and the risk of the global equity market, we use a statistical method known as below-mean semi-variance, which quantifies portfolio risk levels by measuring only the below-average outcomes. This method is designed to provide a more useful and nuanced picture of the Fund's risk profile. As of February 28, 2013, the Dow Jones Target 2015 Index℠ included equity, fixed income and money market securities in the weights of 32%, 64% and 4%, respectively, which represent the percentage breakdown of the Fund's assets across the Diversified Stock, Diversified Fixed Income and Short-Term Investment Portfolios, respectively, as of such date, and may change over time. The Fund reserves the right to change its percentage allocation among the Portfolios as we deem necessary to meet its investment objective.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Principal Investment Risks
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">An investment in the Fund may lose money, is not a deposit of Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. or its affiliates, is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other governmental agency, and is primarily subject to the risks briefly summarized below.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Allocation Methodology Risk.</b> A Fund is subject to the risk that the allocation methodology of the Dow Jones Target Date Index will not meet an investor's goals because it will not eliminate the investment volatility that could reduce the amount of funds available for an investor to withdraw when the investor intends to begin to withdraw a portion or all of the investor's investment in the Fund or it may over-emphasize conservative investments designed to ensure capital conservation and current income, which may ultimately prevent the investor from achieving the investor's income and appreciation goals.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Counter-Party Risk.</b> A Fund may incur a loss if the other party to an investment contract, such as a derivative or a repurchase or reverse repurchase agreement, fails to fulfill its contractual obligation to the Fund.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Debt Securities Risk.</b> The issuer of a debt security may fail to pay interest or principal when due, and the value of a debt security may decline if an issuer defaults or if its credit quality deteriorates. Changes in market interest rates may reduce the value of debt securities or reduce the Fund's returns.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Derivatives Risk.</b> The use of derivatives such as futures, options and swap agreements, can lead to losses, including those magnified by leverage, particularly when derivatives are used to enhance return rather than offset risk.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Emerging Markets Risk.</b> Foreign investment risks are typically greater for securities in emerging markets, which can be more vulnerable to recessions, currency volatility, inflation and market failure.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Foreign Investment Risk.</b> Foreign investments face the potential of heightened illiquidity, greater price volatility and adverse effects of political, regulatory, tax, currency, economic or other macroeconomic developments.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Futures Risk.</b> Because the futures utilized by a Fund are standardized and exchange-traded, where the exchange serves as the ultimate counterparty for all contracts, the primary credit risk on futures contracts is the creditworthiness of the exchange itself. Futures are also subject to market risk, interest rate risk (in the case of futures contracts relating to income producing securities) and index tracking risk (in the case of stock index futures).</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Growth Style Investment Risk.</b> Growth stocks may be more expensive relative to the values of other stocks and carry potential for significant volatility and loss.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Index Tracking Risk.</b> The ability to track an index may be affected by, among other things, transaction costs and shareholder purchases and redemptions.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Issuer Risk.</b> The value of a security may decline because of adverse events or circumstances that directly relate to conditions at the issuer or any entity providing it credit or liquidity support.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Leverage Risk.</b> Leverage created by borrowing or certain investments, such as derivatives and reverse repurchase agreements, can diminish the Fund's performance and increase the volatility of the Fund's net asset value.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Liquidity Risk.</b> A security may not be able to be sold at the time desired or without adversely affecting the price.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Management Risk.</b> There is no guarantee of the Fund's performance or that the Fund will meet its objective. The market value of your investment may decline and you may suffer investment loss.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Market Risk.</b> The market price of securities owned by the Fund may rapidly or unpredictably decline due to factors affecting securities markets generally or particular industries.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Mortgage- and Asset-Backed Securities Risk.</b> Mortgage- and asset-backed securities may decline in value when defaults on the underlying mortgage or assets occur and may exhibit additional volatility in periods of changing interest rates. When interest rates decline, the prepayment of mortgages or assets underlying such securities may require the Fund to reinvest such prepaid funds at lower prevailing interest rates, resulting in reduced returns.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Multi-Style Management Risk.</b> The management of the Fund's portfolio using different investment styles can result in higher transaction costs and lower tax efficiency than other funds which adhere to a single investment style.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Regulatory Risk.</b> Changes in government regulations may adversely affect the value of a security. An insufficiently regulated industry or market might also permit inappropriate practices that adversely affect an investment.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Smaller Company Securities Risk.</b> Securities of companies with smaller market capitalizations tend to be more volatile and less liquid than larger company stocks.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>U.S. Government Obligations Risk.</b> U.S. Government obligations may be adversely affected by changes in interest rates, a default by, or decline in the credit quality of, the U.S. Government, and may not be backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. Government.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Value Style Investment Risk.</b> Value stocks may lose value and may be subject to prolonged depressed valuations.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Performance
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing changes in the Fund's performance from year to year. The Fund's average annual total returns are compared to the performance of one or more indices. Past performance before and after taxes is no guarantee of future results. Current month-end performance is available on the Fund's Web site at wellsfargoadvantagefunds.com.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Calendar Year Total Returns as of 12/31 each year Investor Class</b></p>
Highest Quarter: 2nd Quarter 2009
Lowest Quarter: 4th Quarter 2008
Year-to-date total return as of 3/31/2013 is +1.78%
0.101-0.072
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Average Annual Total Returns for the periods ended 12/31/2012 </b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">After-tax returns are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state, local or foreign taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on an investor's tax situation and may differ from those shown, and after-tax returns shown are not relevant to tax-exempt investors or investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) Plans or Individual Retirement Accounts.</p>
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<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Investment Objective
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund seeks to approximate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the Dow Jones Target 2020 Index℠.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Fees and Expenses
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">These tables are intended to help you understand the various costs and expenses you will pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment) </b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Example of Expenses
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The example below is intended to help you compare the costs of investing in the Fund with the costs of investing in other mutual funds. The example assumes a $10,000 initial investment, 5% annual total return, and that operating expenses remain the same as in the tables above. The example also assumes that the Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver shown above will only be in place for the length of the current waiver commitment. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Portfolio Turnover
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or "turns over" its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund's performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 32% of the average value of its portfolio.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Principal Investment Strategies
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">Under normal circumstances, we invest: </p>
<ul><li>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">at least 80% of the Fund's total assets in equity, fixed income and money market securities designed to approximate the holdings and weightings of the securities in the Dow Jones Target 2020 Index℠.</p>
</li></ul>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund is a gateway fund that invests in various master portfolios which in turn invest in a combination of equity, fixed income and money market securities using an asset allocation strategy designed to replicate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the Dow Jones Target 2020 Index℠. Similar to the methodology of the index, the Fund's investment strategy is to gradually reduce the Fund's potential market risk exposure over time by re-allocating the Fund's assets among these major asset classes: equity, fixed income and money market instruments. Generally, the longer the Fund's time horizon, the more of its assets are allocated to equity securities to pursue capital appreciation over the long term. As the Fund's time horizon shortens, it replaces some of its equity holdings with fixed income and money market holdings to reduce market risk and price volatility and thereby generally becomes more conservative in its asset allocation as the Fund's target year approaches and for the first 10 years after it arrives. The Fund's target year serves as a guide to the relative market risk exposure of the Fund, and your decision to invest in this Fund or another Wells Fargo Advantage Dow Jones Target Date Fund with a different target year and market risk exposure depends upon your individual risk tolerance, among other factors.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The "target year" designated in the Fund's name is the same as the year in the name of the Dow Jones Target 2020 Index℠. Although the individual goals of each investor with respect to a target year vary, an investor may intend for the target year to represent the approximate year in or around which the investor plans to begin withdrawing a portion or all of the investor's investment in the Fund and/or stop making new investments to the Fund. The Fund's goals may not align with the goals of an investor that seeks to begin to withdraw a portion or all of the investor's investment in the Fund significantly before or after the Fund's target year. In this respect, the Fund's goals may more closely align with an investor that intends to begin gradually withdrawing the value of the investor's account on or around the target year. In addition, the Fund will not have its most conservative asset allocation in the Fund's target year, which may not align with an investor's plan for withdrawing the investor's investment. The principal value of an investor's investment in the Fund is not guaranteed, and an investor may experience losses, at any time, including near, at or after the target year designated in the Fund's name. In addition, there is no guarantee that an investor's investment in the Fund will provide income at, and through the years following, the target year in the Fund's name in amounts adequate to meet the investor's goals.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">Currently, the master portfolios in which the Fund invests are the Wells Fargo Advantage Diversified Stock Portfolio, the Wells Fargo Advantage Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio, and the Wells Fargo Advantage Short-Term Investment Portfolio. The Diversified Stock Portfolio and the Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio seek to approximate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the respective equity and fixed income portions of the Dow Jones Target 2020 Index℠ by investing in the securities that comprise the sub-indexes representing the equity and fixed income asset classes, respectively, which securities may include, among others, growth and value stocks, foreign and emerging market equity investments, and securities of smaller companies, as well as debt securities, including corporate bonds, mortgage- and asset-backed securities and U.S. and foreign government obligations. The Diversified Stock Portfolio may also use derivatives, such as stock index futures in order to manage movements of the portfolio against certain indexes. The Diversified Stock Portfolio and the Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio use an optimization process, which seeks to balance the replication of index performance and security transaction costs. The Fund invests in the Short-Term Investment Portfolio to represent the cash component of the Dow Jones Target Date Indexes, but unlike the cash component of the Dow Jones Target 2020 Index℠, the Portfolio does not seek to replicate the Barclays 1-3 Month Treasury-Bill Index. This could result in potential tracking error between the performances of the Fund and the Dow Jones Target 2020 Index℠. By the time the Fund reaches its target year in 2020, its risk exposure will approach 28% of the risk of the global equity market. The Fund will not reach its lowest risk exposure of 20% of the risk of the global equity market until ten years past the Fund's target year. To measure the Fund's risk and the risk of the global equity market, we use a statistical method known as below-mean semi-variance, which quantifies portfolio risk levels by measuring only the below-average outcomes. This method is designed to provide a more useful and nuanced picture of the Fund's risk profile. As of February 28, 2013, the Dow Jones Target 2020 Index℠ included equity, fixed income and money market securities in the weights of 44%, 52% and 4%, respectively, which represent the percentage breakdown of the Fund's assets across the Diversified Stock, Diversified Fixed Income and Short-Term Investment Portfolios, respectively, as of such date, and may change over time. The Fund reserves the right to change its percentage allocation among the Portfolios as we deem necessary to meet its investment objective.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Principal Investment Risks
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">An investment in the Fund may lose money, is not a deposit of Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. or its affiliates, is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other governmental agency, and is primarily subject to the risks briefly summarized below.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Allocation Methodology Risk.</b> A Fund is subject to the risk that the allocation methodology of the Dow Jones Target Date Index will not meet an investor's goals because it will not eliminate the investment volatility that could reduce the amount of funds available for an investor to withdraw when the investor intends to begin to withdraw a portion or all of the investor's investment in the Fund or it may over-emphasize conservative investments designed to ensure capital conservation and current income, which may ultimately prevent the investor from achieving the investor's income and appreciation goals.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Counter-Party Risk.</b> A Fund may incur a loss if the other party to an investment contract, such as a derivative or a repurchase or reverse repurchase agreement, fails to fulfill its contractual obligation to the Fund.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Debt Securities Risk.</b> The issuer of a debt security may fail to pay interest or principal when due, and the value of a debt security may decline if an issuer defaults or if its credit quality deteriorates. Changes in market interest rates may reduce the value of debt securities or reduce the Fund's returns.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Derivatives Risk.</b> The use of derivatives such as futures, options and swap agreements, can lead to losses, including those magnified by leverage, particularly when derivatives are used to enhance return rather than offset risk.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Emerging Markets Risk.</b> Foreign investment risks are typically greater for securities in emerging markets, which can be more vulnerable to recessions, currency volatility, inflation and market failure.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Foreign Investment Risk.</b> Foreign investments face the potential of heightened illiquidity, greater price volatility and adverse effects of political, regulatory, tax, currency, economic or other macroeconomic developments.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Futures Risk.</b> Because the futures utilized by a Fund are standardized and exchange-traded, where the exchange serves as the ultimate counterparty for all contracts, the primary credit risk on futures contracts is the creditworthiness of the exchange itself. Futures are also subject to market risk, interest rate risk (in the case of futures contracts relating to income producing securities) and index tracking risk (in the case of stock index futures).</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Growth Style Investment Risk.</b> Growth stocks may be more expensive relative to the values of other stocks and carry potential for significant volatility and loss.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Index Tracking Risk.</b> The ability to track an index may be affected by, among other things, transaction costs and shareholder purchases and redemptions.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Issuer Risk.</b> The value of a security may decline because of adverse events or circumstances that directly relate to conditions at the issuer or any entity providing it credit or liquidity support.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Leverage Risk.</b> Leverage created by borrowing or certain investments, such as derivatives and reverse repurchase agreements, can diminish the Fund's performance and increase the volatility of the Fund's net asset value.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Liquidity Risk.</b> A security may not be able to be sold at the time desired or without adversely affecting the price.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Management Risk.</b> There is no guarantee of the Fund's performance or that the Fund will meet its objective. The market value of your investment may decline and you may suffer investment loss.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Market Risk.</b> The market price of securities owned by the Fund may rapidly or unpredictably decline due to factors affecting securities markets generally or particular industries.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Mortgage- and Asset-Backed Securities Risk.</b> Mortgage- and asset-backed securities may decline in value when defaults on the underlying mortgage or assets occur and may exhibit additional volatility in periods of changing interest rates. When interest rates decline, the prepayment of mortgages or assets underlying such securities may require the Fund to reinvest such prepaid funds at lower prevailing interest rates, resulting in reduced returns.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Multi-Style Management Risk.</b> The management of the Fund's portfolio using different investment styles can result in higher transaction costs and lower tax efficiency than other funds which adhere to a single investment style.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Regulatory Risk.</b> Changes in government regulations may adversely affect the value of a security. An insufficiently regulated industry or market might also permit inappropriate practices that adversely affect an investment.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Smaller Company Securities Risk.</b> Securities of companies with smaller market capitalizations tend to be more volatile and less liquid than larger company stocks.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>U.S. Government Obligations Risk.</b> U.S. Government obligations may be adversely affected by changes in interest rates, a default by, or decline in the credit quality of, the U.S. Government, and may not be backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. Government.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Value Style Investment Risk.</b> Value stocks may lose value and may be subject to prolonged depressed valuations.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Performance
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing changes in the Fund's performance from year to year. The Fund's average annual total returns are compared to the performance of one or more indices. Past performance before and after taxes is no guarantee of future results. Current month-end performance is available on the Fund's Web site at wellsfargoadvantagefunds.com.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Calendar Year Total Returns as of 12/31 each year Investor Class</b></p>
Highest Quarter: 2nd Quarter 2009
Lowest Quarter: 4th Quarter 2008
Year-to-date total return as of 3/31/2013 is +3.04%
0.1239-0.1073
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Average Annual Total Returns for the periods ended 12/31/2012 </b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">After-tax returns are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state, local or foreign taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on an investor's tax situation and may differ from those shown, and after-tax returns shown are not relevant to tax-exempt investors or investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) Plans or Individual Retirement Accounts.</p>
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<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Investment Objective
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund seeks to approximate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the Dow Jones Target 2025 Index℠.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Fees and Expenses
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">These tables are intended to help you understand the various costs and expenses you will pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment) </b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Example of Expenses
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The example below is intended to help you compare the costs of investing in the Fund with the costs of investing in other mutual funds. The example assumes a $10,000 initial investment, 5% annual total return, and that operating expenses remain the same as in the tables above. The example also assumes that the Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver shown above will only be in place for the length of the current waiver commitment. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Portfolio Turnover
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or "turns over" its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund's performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 28% of the average value of its portfolio.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Principal Investment Strategies
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">Under normal circumstances, we invest: </p>
<ul><li>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">at least 80% of the Fund's total assets in equity, fixed income and money market securities designed to approximate the holdings and weightings of the securities in the Dow Jones Target 2025 Index℠.</p>
</li></ul>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund is a gateway fund that invests in various master portfolios which in turn invest in a combination of equity, fixed income and money market securities using an asset allocation strategy designed to replicate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the Dow Jones Target 2025 Index℠. Similar to the methodology of the index, the Fund's investment strategy is to gradually reduce the Fund's potential market risk exposure over time by re-allocating the Fund's assets among these major asset classes: equity, fixed income and money market instruments. Generally, the longer the Fund's time horizon, the more of its assets are allocated to equity securities to pursue capital appreciation over the long term. As the Fund's time horizon shortens, it replaces some of its equity holdings with fixed income and money market holdings to reduce market risk and price volatility and thereby generally becomes more conservative in its asset allocation as the Fund's target year approaches and for the first 10 years after it arrives. The Fund's target year serves as a guide to the relative market risk exposure of the Fund, and your decision to invest in this Fund or another Wells Fargo Advantage Dow Jones Target Date Fund with a different target year and market risk exposure depends upon your individual risk tolerance, among other factors.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The "target year" designated in the Fund's name is the same as the year in the name of the Dow Jones Target 2025 Index℠. Although the individual goals of each investor with respect to a target year vary, an investor may intend for the target year to represent the approximate year in or around which the investor plans to begin withdrawing a portion or all of the investor's investment in the Fund and/or stop making new investments to the Fund. The Fund's goals may not align with the goals of an investor that seeks to begin to withdraw a portion or all of the investor's investment in the Fund significantly before or after the Fund's target year. In this respect, the Fund's goals may more closely align with an investor that intends to begin gradually withdrawing the value of the investor's account on or around the target year. In addition, the Fund will not have its most conservative asset allocation in the Fund's target year, which may not align with an investor's plan for withdrawing the investor's investment. The principal value of an investor's investment in the Fund is not guaranteed, and an investor may experience losses, at any time, including near, at or after the target year designated in the Fund's name. In addition, there is no guarantee that an investor's investment in the Fund will provide income at, and through the years following, the target year in the Fund's name in amounts adequate to meet the investor's goals.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">Currently, the master portfolios in which the Fund invests are the Wells Fargo Advantage Diversified Stock Portfolio, the Wells Fargo Advantage Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio, and the Wells Fargo Advantage Short-Term Investment Portfolio. The Diversified Stock Portfolio and the Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio seek to approximate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the respective equity and fixed income portions of the Dow Jones Target 2025 Index℠ by investing in the securities that comprise the sub-indexes representing the equity and fixed income asset classes, respectively, which securities may include, among others, growth and value stocks, foreign and emerging market equity investments, and securities of smaller companies, as well as debt securities, including corporate bonds, mortgage- and asset-backed securities and U.S. and foreign government obligations. The Diversified Stock Portfolio may also use derivatives, such as stock index futures in order to manage movements of the portfolio against certain indexes. The Diversified Stock Portfolio and the Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio use an optimization process, which seeks to balance the replication of index performance and security transaction costs. The Fund invests in the Short-Term Investment Portfolio to represent the cash component of the Dow Jones Target Date Indexes, but unlike the cash component of the Dow Jones Target 2025 Index℠, the Portfolio does not seek to replicate the Barclays 1-3 Month Treasury-Bill Index. This could result in potential tracking error between the performances of the Fund and the Dow Jones Target 2025 Index℠. By the time the Fund reaches its target year in 2025, its risk exposure will approach 28% of the risk of the global equity market. The Fund will not reach its lowest risk exposure of 20% of the risk of the global equity market until ten years past the Fund's target year. To measure the Fund's risk and the risk of the global equity market, we use a statistical method known as below-mean semi-variance, which quantifies portfolio risk levels by measuring only the below-average outcomes. This method is designed to provide a more useful and nuanced picture of the Fund's risk profile. As of February 28, 2013, the Dow Jones Target 2025 Index℠ included equity, fixed income and money market securities in the weights of 56%, 40% and 4%, respectively, which represent the percentage breakdown of the Fund's assets across the Diversified Stock, Diversified Fixed Income and Short-Term Investment Portfolios, respectively, as of such date, and may change over time. The Fund reserves the right to change its percentage allocation among the Portfolios as we deem necessary to meet its investment objective.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Principal Investment Risks
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">An investment in the Fund may lose money, is not a deposit of Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. or its affiliates, is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other governmental agency, and is primarily subject to the risks briefly summarized below.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Allocation Methodology Risk.</b> A Fund is subject to the risk that the allocation methodology of the Dow Jones Target Date Index will not meet an investor's goals because it will not eliminate the investment volatility that could reduce the amount of funds available for an investor to withdraw when the investor intends to begin to withdraw a portion or all of the investor's investment in the Fund or it may over-emphasize conservative investments designed to ensure capital conservation and current income, which may ultimately prevent the investor from achieving the investor's income and appreciation goals.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Counter-Party Risk.</b> A Fund may incur a loss if the other party to an investment contract, such as a derivative or a repurchase or reverse repurchase agreement, fails to fulfill its contractual obligation to the Fund.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Debt Securities Risk.</b> The issuer of a debt security may fail to pay interest or principal when due, and the value of a debt security may decline if an issuer defaults or if its credit quality deteriorates. Changes in market interest rates may reduce the value of debt securities or reduce the Fund's returns.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Derivatives Risk.</b> The use of derivatives such as futures, options and swap agreements, can lead to losses, including those magnified by leverage, particularly when derivatives are used to enhance return rather than offset risk.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Emerging Markets Risk.</b> Foreign investment risks are typically greater for securities in emerging markets, which can be more vulnerable to recessions, currency volatility, inflation and market failure.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Foreign Investment Risk.</b> Foreign investments face the potential of heightened illiquidity, greater price volatility and adverse effects of political, regulatory, tax, currency, economic or other macroeconomic developments.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Futures Risk.</b> Because the futures utilized by a Fund are standardized and exchange-traded, where the exchange serves as the ultimate counterparty for all contracts, the primary credit risk on futures contracts is the creditworthiness of the exchange itself. Futures are also subject to market risk, interest rate risk (in the case of futures contracts relating to income producing securities) and index tracking risk (in the case of stock index futures).</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Growth Style Investment Risk.</b> Growth stocks may be more expensive relative to the values of other stocks and carry potential for significant volatility and loss.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Index Tracking Risk.</b> The ability to track an index may be affected by, among other things, transaction costs and shareholder purchases and redemptions.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Issuer Risk.</b> The value of a security may decline because of adverse events or circumstances that directly relate to conditions at the issuer or any entity providing it credit or liquidity support.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Leverage Risk.</b> Leverage created by borrowing or certain investments, such as derivatives and reverse repurchase agreements, can diminish the Fund's performance and increase the volatility of the Fund's net asset value.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Liquidity Risk.</b> A security may not be able to be sold at the time desired or without adversely affecting the price.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Management Risk.</b> There is no guarantee of the Fund's performance or that the Fund will meet its objective. The market value of your investment may decline and you may suffer investment loss.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Market Risk.</b> The market price of securities owned by the Fund may rapidly or unpredictably decline due to factors affecting securities markets generally or particular industries.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Mortgage- and Asset-Backed Securities Risk.</b> Mortgage- and asset-backed securities may decline in value when defaults on the underlying mortgage or assets occur and may exhibit additional volatility in periods of changing interest rates. When interest rates decline, the prepayment of mortgages or assets underlying such securities may require the Fund to reinvest such prepaid funds at lower prevailing interest rates, resulting in reduced returns.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Multi-Style Management Risk.</b> The management of the Fund's portfolio using different investment styles can result in higher transaction costs and lower tax efficiency than other funds which adhere to a single investment style.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Regulatory Risk.</b> Changes in government regulations may adversely affect the value of a security. An insufficiently regulated industry or market might also permit inappropriate practices that adversely affect an investment.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Smaller Company Securities Risk.</b> Securities of companies with smaller market capitalizations tend to be more volatile and less liquid than larger company stocks.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>U.S. Government Obligations Risk.</b> U.S. Government obligations may be adversely affected by changes in interest rates, a default by, or decline in the credit quality of, the U.S. Government, and may not be backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. Government.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Value Style Investment Risk.</b> Value stocks may lose value and may be subject to prolonged depressed valuations.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Performance
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing changes in the Fund's performance from year to year. The Fund's average annual total returns are compared to the performance of one or more indices. Past performance before and after taxes is no guarantee of future results. Current month-end performance is available on the Fund's Web site at wellsfargoadvantagefunds.com.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Calendar Year Total Returns as of 12/31 each year Investor Class</b></p>
Highest Quarter: 2nd Quarter 2009
Lowest Quarter: 4th Quarter 2008
Year-to-date total return as of 3/31/2013 is +4.20%
0.1511-0.1431
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Average Annual Total Returns for the periods ended 12/31/2012 </b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">After-tax returns are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state, local or foreign taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on an investor's tax situation and may differ from those shown, and after-tax returns shown are not relevant to tax-exempt investors or investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) Plans or Individual Retirement Accounts.</p>
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<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Investment Objective
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund seeks to approximate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the Dow Jones Target 2030 Index℠.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Fees and Expenses
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">These tables are intended to help you understand the various costs and expenses you will pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment) </b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Example of Expenses
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The example below is intended to help you compare the costs of investing in the Fund with the costs of investing in other mutual funds. The example assumes a $10,000 initial investment, 5% annual total return, and that operating expenses remain the same as in the tables above. The example also assumes that the Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver shown above will only be in place for the length of the current waiver commitment. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Portfolio Turnover
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or "turns over" its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund's performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 25% of the average value of its portfolio.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Principal Investment Strategies
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">Under normal circumstances, we invest: </p>
<ul><li>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">at least 80% of the Fund's total assets in equity, fixed income and money market securities designed to approximate the holdings and weightings of the securities in the Dow Jones Target 2030 Index℠.</p>
</li></ul>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund is a gateway fund that invests in various master portfolios which in turn invest in a combination of equity, fixed income and money market securities using an asset allocation strategy designed to replicate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the Dow Jones Target 2030 Index℠. Similar to the methodology of the index, the Fund's investment strategy is to gradually reduce the Fund's potential market risk exposure over time by re-allocating the Fund's assets among these major asset classes: equity, fixed income and money market instruments. Generally, the longer the Fund's time horizon, the more of its assets are allocated to equity securities to pursue capital appreciation over the long term. As the Fund's time horizon shortens, it replaces some of its equity holdings with fixed income and money market holdings to reduce market risk and price volatility and thereby generally becomes more conservative in its asset allocation as the Fund's target year approaches and for the first 10 years after it arrives. The Fund's target year serves as a guide to the relative market risk exposure of the Fund, and your decision to invest in this Fund or another Wells Fargo Advantage Dow Jones Target Date Fund with a different target year and market risk exposure depends upon your individual risk tolerance, among other factors.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The "target year" designated in the Fund's name is the same as the year in the name of the Dow Jones Target 2030 Index℠. Although the individual goals of each investor with respect to a target year vary, an investor may intend for the target year to represent the approximate year in or around which the investor plans to begin withdrawing a portion or all of the investor's investment in the Fund and/or stop making new investments to the Fund. The Fund's goals may not align with the goals of an investor that seeks to begin to withdraw a portion or all of the investor's investment in the Fund significantly before or after the Fund's target year. In this respect, the Fund's goals may more closely align with an investor that intends to begin gradually withdrawing the value of the investor's account on or around the target year. In addition, the Fund will not have its most conservative asset allocation in the Fund's target year, which may not align with an investor's plan for withdrawing the investor's investment. The principal value of an investor's investment in the Fund is not guaranteed, and an investor may experience losses, at any time, including near, at or after the target year designated in the Fund's name. In addition, there is no guarantee that an investor's investment in the Fund will provide income at, and through the years following, the target year in the Fund's name in amounts adequate to meet the investor's goals.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">Currently, the master portfolios in which the Fund invests are the Wells Fargo Advantage Diversified Stock Portfolio, the Wells Fargo Advantage Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio, and the Wells Fargo Advantage Short-Term Investment Portfolio. The Diversified Stock Portfolio and the Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio seek to approximate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the respective equity and fixed income portions of the Dow Jones Target 2030 Index℠ by investing in the securities that comprise the sub-indexes representing the equity and fixed income asset classes, respectively, which securities may include, among others, growth and value stocks, foreign and emerging market equity investments, and securities of smaller companies, as well as debt securities, including corporate bonds, mortgage- and asset-backed securities and U.S. and foreign government obligations. The Diversified Stock Portfolio may also use derivatives, such as stock index futures in order to manage movements of the portfolio against certain indexes. The Diversified Stock Portfolio and the Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio use an optimization process, which seeks to balance the replication of index performance and security transaction costs. The Fund invests in the Short-Term Investment Portfolio to represent the cash component of the Dow Jones Target Date Indexes, but unlike the cash component of the Dow Jones Target 2030 Index℠, the Portfolio does not seek to replicate the Barclays 1-3 Month Treasury-Bill Index. This could result in potential tracking error between the performances of the Fund and the Dow Jones Target 2030 Index℠. By the time the Fund reaches its target year in 2030, its risk exposure will approach 28% of the risk of the global equity market. The Fund will not reach its lowest risk exposure of 20% of the risk of the global equity market until ten years past the Fund's target year. To measure the Fund's risk and the risk of the global equity market, we use a statistical method known as below-mean semi-variance, which quantifies portfolio risk levels by measuring only the below-average outcomes. This method is designed to provide a more useful and nuanced picture of the Fund's risk profile. As of February 28, 2013, the Dow Jones Target 2030 Index℠ included equity, fixed income and money market securities in the weights of 68%, 28% and 4%, respectively, which represent the percentage breakdown of the Fund's assets across the Diversified Stock, Diversified Fixed Income and Short-Term Investment Portfolios, respectively, as of such date, and may change over time. The Fund reserves the right to change its percentage allocation among the Portfolios as we deem necessary to meet its investment objective.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Principal Investment Risks
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">An investment in the Fund may lose money, is not a deposit of Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. or its affiliates, is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other governmental agency, and is primarily subject to the risks briefly summarized below.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Allocation Methodology Risk.</b> A Fund is subject to the risk that the allocation methodology of the Dow Jones Target Date Index will not meet an investor's goals because it will not eliminate the investment volatility that could reduce the amount of funds available for an investor to withdraw when the investor intends to begin to withdraw a portion or all of the investor's investment in the Fund or it may over-emphasize conservative investments designed to ensure capital conservation and current income, which may ultimately prevent the investor from achieving the investor's income and appreciation goals.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Counter-Party Risk.</b> A Fund may incur a loss if the other party to an investment contract, such as a derivative or a repurchase or reverse repurchase agreement, fails to fulfill its contractual obligation to the Fund.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Debt Securities Risk.</b> The issuer of a debt security may fail to pay interest or principal when due, and the value of a debt security may decline if an issuer defaults or if its credit quality deteriorates. Changes in market interest rates may reduce the value of debt securities or reduce the Fund's returns.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Derivatives Risk.</b> The use of derivatives such as futures, options and swap agreements, can lead to losses, including those magnified by leverage, particularly when derivatives are used to enhance return rather than offset risk.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Emerging Markets Risk.</b> Foreign investment risks are typically greater for securities in emerging markets, which can be more vulnerable to recessions, currency volatility, inflation and market failure.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Foreign Investment Risk.</b> Foreign investments face the potential of heightened illiquidity, greater price volatility and adverse effects of political, regulatory, tax, currency, economic or other macroeconomic developments.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Futures Risk.</b> Because the futures utilized by a Fund are standardized and exchange-traded, where the exchange serves as the ultimate counterparty for all contracts, the primary credit risk on futures contracts is the creditworthiness of the exchange itself. Futures are also subject to market risk, interest rate risk (in the case of futures contracts relating to income producing securities) and index tracking risk (in the case of stock index futures).</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Growth Style Investment Risk.</b> Growth stocks may be more expensive relative to the values of other stocks and carry potential for significant volatility and loss.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Index Tracking Risk.</b> The ability to track an index may be affected by, among other things, transaction costs and shareholder purchases and redemptions.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Issuer Risk.</b> The value of a security may decline because of adverse events or circumstances that directly relate to conditions at the issuer or any entity providing it credit or liquidity support.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Leverage Risk.</b> Leverage created by borrowing or certain investments, such as derivatives and reverse repurchase agreements, can diminish the Fund's performance and increase the volatility of the Fund's net asset value.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Liquidity Risk.</b> A security may not be able to be sold at the time desired or without adversely affecting the price.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Management Risk.</b> There is no guarantee of the Fund's performance or that the Fund will meet its objective. The market value of your investment may decline and you may suffer investment loss.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Market Risk.</b> The market price of securities owned by the Fund may rapidly or unpredictably decline due to factors affecting securities markets generally or particular industries.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Mortgage- and Asset-Backed Securities Risk.</b> Mortgage- and asset-backed securities may decline in value when defaults on the underlying mortgage or assets occur and may exhibit additional volatility in periods of changing interest rates. When interest rates decline, the prepayment of mortgages or assets underlying such securities may require the Fund to reinvest such prepaid funds at lower prevailing interest rates, resulting in reduced returns.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Multi-Style Management Risk.</b> The management of the Fund's portfolio using different investment styles can result in higher transaction costs and lower tax efficiency than other funds which adhere to a single investment style.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Regulatory Risk.</b> Changes in government regulations may adversely affect the value of a security. An insufficiently regulated industry or market might also permit inappropriate practices that adversely affect an investment.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Smaller Company Securities Risk.</b> Securities of companies with smaller market capitalizations tend to be more volatile and less liquid than larger company stocks.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>U.S. Government Obligations Risk.</b> U.S. Government obligations may be adversely affected by changes in interest rates, a default by, or decline in the credit quality of, the U.S. Government, and may not be backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. Government.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">
<b>Value Style Investment Risk.</b> Value stocks may lose value and may be subject to prolonged depressed valuations.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Performance
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing changes in the Fund's performance from year to year. The Fund's average annual total returns are compared to the performance of one or more indices. Past performance before and after taxes is no guarantee of future results. Current month-end performance is available on the Fund's Web site at wellsfargoadvantagefunds.com.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Calendar Year Total Returns as of 12/31 each year Investor Class</b></p>
Highest Quarter: 2nd Quarter 2009
Lowest Quarter: 4th Quarter 2008
Year-to-date total return as of 3/31/2013 is +5.41%
0.1768-0.1736
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Average Annual Total Returns for the periods ended 12/31/2012 </b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">After-tax returns are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state, local or foreign taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on an investor's tax situation and may differ from those shown, and after-tax returns shown are not relevant to tax-exempt investors or investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) Plans or Individual Retirement Accounts.</p>
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<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Investment Objective
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund seeks to approximate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the Dow Jones Target 2035 Index℠.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Fees and Expenses
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">These tables are intended to help you understand the various costs and expenses you will pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment) </b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Example of Expenses
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The example below is intended to help you compare the costs of investing in the Fund with the costs of investing in other mutual funds. The example assumes a $10,000 initial investment, 5% annual total return, and that operating expenses remain the same as in the tables above. The example also assumes that the Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver shown above will only be in place for the length of the current waiver commitment. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Portfolio Turnover
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or "turns over" its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund's performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 22% of the average value of its portfolio.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Principal Investment Strategies
</b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">Under normal circumstances, we invest: </p>
<ul><li>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">at least 80% of the Fund's total assets in equity, fixed income and money market securities designed to approximate the holdings and weightings of the securities in the Dow Jones Target 2035 Index℠.</p>
</li></ul>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The Fund is a gateway fund that invests in various master portfolios which in turn invest in a combination of equity, fixed income and money market securities using an asset allocation strategy designed to replicate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the Dow Jones Target 2035 Index℠. Similar to the methodology of the index, the Fund's investment strategy is to gradually reduce the Fund's potential market risk exposure over time by re-allocating the Fund's assets among these major asset classes: equity, fixed income and money market instruments. Generally, the longer the Fund's time horizon, the more of its assets are allocated to equity securities to pursue capital appreciation over the long term. As the Fund's time horizon shortens, it replaces some of its equity holdings with fixed income and money market holdings to reduce market risk and price volatility and thereby generally becomes more conservative in its asset allocation as the Fund's target year approaches and for the first 10 years after it arrives. The Fund's target year serves as a guide to the relative market risk exposure of the Fund, and your decision to invest in this Fund or another Wells Fargo Advantage Dow Jones Target Date Fund with a different target year and market risk exposure depends upon your individual risk tolerance, among other factors.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The "target year" designated in the Fund's name is the same as the year in the name of the Dow Jones Target 2035 Index℠. Although the individual goals of each investor with respect to a target year vary, an investor may intend for the target year to represent the approximate year in or around which the investor plans to begin withdrawing a portion or all of the investor's investment in the Fund and/or stop making new investments to the Fund. The Fund's goals may not align with the goals of an investor that seeks to begin to withdraw a portion or all of the investor's investment in the Fund significantly before or after the Fund's target year. In this respect, the Fund's goals may more closely align with an investor that intends to begin gradually withdrawing the value of the investor's account on or around the target year. In addition, the Fund will not have its most conservative asset allocation in the Fund's target year, which may not align with an investor's plan for withdrawing the investor's investment. The principal value of an investor's investment in the Fund is not guaranteed, and an investor may experience losses, at any time, including near, at or after the target year designated in the Fund's name. In addition, there is no guarantee that an investor's investment in the Fund will provide income at, and through the years following, the target year in the Fund's name in amounts adequate to meet the investor's goals.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">Currently, the master portfolios in which the Fund invests are the Wells Fargo Advantage Diversified Stock Portfolio, the Wells Fargo Advantage Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio, and the Wells Fargo Advantage Short-Term Investment Portfolio. The Diversified Stock Portfolio and the Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio seek to approximate, before fees and expenses, the total return of the respective equity and fixed income portions of the Dow Jones Target 2035 Index℠ by investing in the securities that comprise the sub-indexes representing the equity and fixed income asset classes, respectively, which securities may include, among others, growth and value stocks, foreign and emerging market equity investments, and securities of smaller companies, as well as debt securities, including corporate bonds, mortgage- and asset-backed securities and U.S. and foreign government obligations. The Diversified Stock Portfolio may also use derivatives, such as stock index futures in order to manage movements of the portfolio against certain indexes. The Diversified Stock Portfolio and the Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio use an optimization process, which seeks to balance the replication of index performance and security transaction costs. The Fund invests in the Short-Term Investment Portfolio to represent the cash component of the Dow Jones Target Date Indexes, but unlike the cash component of the Dow Jones Target 2035 Index℠, the Portfolio does not seek to replicate the Barclays 1-3 Month Treasury-Bill Index. This could result in potential tracking error between the performances of the Fund and the Dow Jones Target 2035 Index℠. By the time the Fund reaches its target year in 2035, its risk exposure will approach 28% of the risk of the global equity market. The Fund will not reach its lowest risk exposure of 20% of the risk of the global equity market until ten years past the Fund's target year. To measure the Fund's risk and the risk of the global equity market, we use a statistical method known as below-mean semi-variance, which quantifies portfolio risk levels by measuring only the below-average outcomes. This method is designed to provide a more useful and nuanced picture of the Fund's risk profile. As of February 28, 2013, the Dow Jones Target 2035 Index℠ included equity, fixed income and money market securities in the weights of 79%, 17% and 4%, respectively, which represent the percentage breakdown of the Fund's assets across the Diversified Stock, Diversified Fixed Income and Short-Term Investment Portfolios, respectively, as of such date, and may change over time. The Fund reserves the right to change its percentage allocation among the Portfolios as we deem necessary to meet its investment objective.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>
Principal Investment Risks
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<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">An investment in the Fund may lose money, is not a deposit of Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. or its affiliates, is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other governmental agency, and is primarily subject to the risks briefly summarized below.</p>
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<b>Allocation Methodology Risk.</b> A Fund is subject to the risk that the allocation methodology of the Dow Jones Target Date Index will not meet an investor's goals because it will not eliminate the investment volatility that could reduce the amount of funds available for an investor to withdraw when the investor intends to begin to withdraw a portion or all of the investor's investment in the Fund or it may over-emphasize conservative investments designed to ensure capital conservation and current income, which may ultimately prevent the investor from achieving the investor's income and appreciation goals.</p>
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<b>Counter-Party Risk.</b> A Fund may incur a loss if the other party to an investment contract, such as a derivative or a repurchase or reverse repurchase agreement, fails to fulfill its contractual obligation to the Fund.</p>
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<b>Debt Securities Risk.</b> The issuer of a debt security may fail to pay interest or principal when due, and the value of a debt security may decline if an issuer defaults or if its credit quality deteriorates. Changes in market interest rates may reduce the value of debt securities or reduce the Fund's returns.</p>
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<b>Derivatives Risk.</b> The use of derivatives such as futures, options and swap agreements, can lead to losses, including those magnified by leverage, particularly when derivatives are used to enhance return rather than offset risk.</p>
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<b>Emerging Markets Risk.</b> Foreign investment risks are typically greater for securities in emerging markets, which can be more vulnerable to recessions, currency volatility, inflation and market failure.</p>
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<b>Foreign Investment Risk.</b> Foreign investments face the potential of heightened illiquidity, greater price volatility and adverse effects of political, regulatory, tax, currency, economic or other macroeconomic developments.</p>
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<b>Futures Risk.</b> Because the futures utilized by a Fund are standardized and exchange-traded, where the exchange serves as the ultimate counterparty for all contracts, the primary credit risk on futures contracts is the creditworthiness of the exchange itself. Futures are also subject to market risk, interest rate risk (in the case of futures contracts relating to income producing securities) and index tracking risk (in the case of stock index futures).</p>
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<b>Growth Style Investment Risk.</b> Growth stocks may be more expensive relative to the values of other stocks and carry potential for significant volatility and loss.</p>
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<b>Index Tracking Risk.</b> The ability to track an index may be affected by, among other things, transaction costs and shareholder purchases and redemptions.</p>
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<b>Issuer Risk.</b> The value of a security may decline because of adverse events or circumstances that directly relate to conditions at the issuer or any entity providing it credit or liquidity support.</p>
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<b>Leverage Risk.</b> Leverage created by borrowing or certain investments, such as derivatives and reverse repurchase agreements, can diminish the Fund's performance and increase the volatility of the Fund's net asset value.</p>
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<b>Liquidity Risk.</b> A security may not be able to be sold at the time desired or without adversely affecting the price.</p>
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<b>Management Risk.</b> There is no guarantee of the Fund's performance or that the Fund will meet its objective. The market value of your investment may decline and you may suffer investment loss.</p>
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<b>Market Risk.</b> The market price of securities owned by the Fund may rapidly or unpredictably decline due to factors affecting securities markets generally or particular industries.</p>
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<b>Mortgage- and Asset-Backed Securities Risk.</b> Mortgage- and asset-backed securities may decline in value when defaults on the underlying mortgage or assets occur and may exhibit additional volatility in periods of changing interest rates. When interest rates decline, the prepayment of mortgages or assets underlying such securities may require the Fund to reinvest such prepaid funds at lower prevailing interest rates, resulting in reduced returns.</p>
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<b>Multi-Style Management Risk.</b> The management of the Fund's portfolio using different investment styles can result in higher transaction costs and lower tax efficiency than other funds which adhere to a single investment style.</p>
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<b>Regulatory Risk.</b> Changes in government regulations may adversely affect the value of a security. An insufficiently regulated industry or market might also permit inappropriate practices that adversely affect an investment.</p>
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<b>Smaller Company Securities Risk.</b> Securities of companies with smaller market capitalizations tend to be more volatile and less liquid than larger company stocks.</p>
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<b>U.S. Government Obligations Risk.</b> U.S. Government obligations may be adversely affected by changes in interest rates, a default by, or decline in the credit quality of, the U.S. Government, and may not be backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. Government.</p>
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<b>Value Style Investment Risk.</b> Value stocks may lose value and may be subject to prolonged depressed valuations.</p>
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Performance
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<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing changes in the Fund's performance from year to year. The Fund's average annual total returns are compared to the performance of one or more indices. Past performance before and after taxes is no guarantee of future results. Current month-end performance is available on the Fund's Web site at wellsfargoadvantagefunds.com.</p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Calendar Year Total Returns as of 12/31 each year Investor Class</b></p>
Highest Quarter: 2nd Quarter 2009
Lowest Quarter: 4th Quarter 2008
Year-to-date total return as of 3/31/2013 is +6.40%
0.1942-0.1938
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;"><b>Average Annual Total Returns for the periods ended 12/31/2012 </b></p>
<p style="font-size:12;padding-top:2;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;">After-tax returns are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state, local or foreign taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on an investor's tax situation and may differ from those shown, and after-tax returns shown are not relevant to tax-exempt investors or investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) Plans or Individual Retirement Accounts.</p>
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